Seaforth Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Unwordly rare! Found a couple days ago at my fossil hunting grounds just outside Amsterdam Usually only tails & frags but this time this little critter popped out of the rocks which makes it my 3rd ever more or less complete trilo in over 3 years of hunting that place several times a week! Still have a hard time believing it :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 It's beautiful! And love the coin! "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Thats a wonderful trilobite! Good job and thanks for sharing! Izak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 That is NICE! "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."-Romans 14:19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaforth Posted August 23, 2015 Author Share Posted August 23, 2015 Thanks guys! I am pretty sure the trilo is complete and partially hiding on the left side. But I will NOT prep it for fear of braking it as the rock is fragile. And since its the 3rd I ever found in more or less in good nick in 3 years of fanatically hunting that site I will most definately drown myself in the bath tub (or throw myself into a kitchen knife) if I ruin this hard won complete trilobite in an attempt to "prep it". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Sweet find! Are You going to prep it? Would love to see it all cleaned up! Ynot PS You beat Me to it. ( I think if You use a pin vice and go real slow You would like the results.) Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Well done; congratulations! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Nice, elongate trilobites are really cool. As are all trilobites. And all fossils, for that matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velociraptor99 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Amazing trilobite! Your persistence and hard work payed off. Three whole years for that sucker?? Worth the wait if you ask me! Thank you for sharing! So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and door will be opened for you. -Jesus Christ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Nice find! Congrats! " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Great find Pat, congrats! : ) Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Perseverance pays off! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I always tell people im fossil hunting with that the right rock can make your whole day. I think in this case the right rock has made your whole year! Wooooop!!! Woooooop!!!! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaforth Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 I always tell people im fossil hunting with that the right rock can make your whole day. I think in this case the right rock has made your whole year! Wooooop!!! Woooooop!!!! RB Oh yeah, find of the year most definately!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticocerasman Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Great job Pat, There is probably more where that came from growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaforth Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Ha Kev, I'm sure there are :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Well done, Pat! Wonderful specimen. Thanks for sharing your good luck story with us. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPlainPetrified Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I can only echo the preceding comments. Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I may have missed it, but what age is it? Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluros Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Nice trilobite. I appreciate your fear of prep work but with a micro-abraider and a skilled prep job you would be please. I collect triarthrus becki here in Vermont and the matrix and trilobite are the same hardness.The trick is to practice on some of your partials until you get the hang of working with the matrix. It took me awhile but now I can get those trarthrus out without destroying them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticocerasman Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I may have missed it, but what age is it? It is an early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) trilobite. Those rocks are from quarries in Belgium. they use those boulders near Amsterdam to consolidate river shorelines. growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaforth Posted August 29, 2015 Author Share Posted August 29, 2015 Nice trilobite. I appreciate your fear of prep work but with a micro-abraider and a skilled prep job you would be please. I collect triarthrus becki here in Vermont and the matrix and trilobite are the same hardness.The trick is to practice on some of your partials until you get the hang of working with the matrix. It took me awhile but now I can get those trarthrus out without destroying them. Thanks! Indeed that would be a wise way to start however I like trilo's that are still partially hidden in their matrix somehow. Besides its only the 3rd in this shape I have EVER found in 3 years of fanatically hunting several times a week so I am a bit carefull with my very few & far between complete trilo's. I would most cerntainly go nuts if I ruin this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesuslover340 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Next time I go to BCM I'll send a few unprepped trilos your way, then, Seaforth As aforestated, a thrilling find! "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."-Romans 14:19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaforth Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 Thanks Skye! I LOVE the bits you sent recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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