DE&i Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 (edited) There are many fossils now in my care and as I continue to keep a promise I made to give them some undivided attention. Especially as quite a few of them had been stored away for some time. Resulting in the destruction to some of the identification labels that are housed within small match boxes with a particular fossil. The only only help I can give with the description to these obvious trilobites is that they are in a hard grey slate and are from the UK. All suggestions welcome. Also just a heads up to say this thread may become rather large as I've many more moth eaten noted fossils to come.. Edited July 23, 2016 by DarrenElliot Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I used that exact same excuse for my homework in school, but, for some reason, the teacher didn't believe me. :-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 pygidium trilobite lower Cambrian Maybe someone can ID the trilobite. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 I used that exact same excuse for my homework in school, but, for some reason, the teacher didn't believe me. :-) I like that Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 On 7/23/2016 at 1:44 PM, DPS Ammonite said: pygidium trilobite lower Cambrian Maybe someone can ID the trilobite. Those are not lower Cambrian, they are proetid trilobites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 pygidium trilobite lower Cambrian Maybe someone can ID the trilobite. That's interesting Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 Those are not lower Cambrian, they are proetid trilobites. Proetid you say...one minute Ill be right back. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 Could they possibly be Lower Carboniferous. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Could they possibly be Lower Carboniferous. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 Are we looking at two different species. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 To my untrained eye and a inkling that the person who collected them visited Devonshire and Lancashire. And after reading through my British Fossils Palaeozoic handbook. My best guess at present is they are Spatulina spatulata or Cummingella jonesi. How am I doing Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 This one looks like a possible match with Dechenella setosa, described from the Middle Devonian of Devonshire. Selwood, E.B. (1965) Dechenellid trilobites from the British Middle Devonian. British Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 10(9):319-333 LINK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 On 23/07/2016 at 11:09 PM, piranha said: This one looks like a possible match with Dechenella setosa, described from the Middle Devonian of Devonshire. Selwood, E.B. (1965) Dechenellid trilobites from the British Middle Devonian. British Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 10(9):319-333 LINK Sorry for late reply @piranha I've checked in my British Fossils Palaeozoic book and you are indeed correct. I've still not established an i.d. for the other trilobite as yet though. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 @DarrenElliotThey may be from Cawdor Quarry, Derbyshire. It's a GCR site, Lower Carboniferous Monsal Dale and Eyam Limestones and has Paladin sp. trilobites recorded from it which fits - I've found a few very similar though not from there. (You say the rock is slate but could it be shaly, grey limestone?) Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 @TqB That's really interesting it could well be a shaly, grey limestone. I've just took a look under a loupe at the pieces and can notice tiny white flecks. But more importantly it would seem you have unlocked one of the clues as the word with the black arrow may just be the word " Cawdor " Just need to find some references now. 1 Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 45 minutes ago, DarrenElliot said: Just need to find some references now. These papers have a bunch of trilobites from the localities mentioned by Tarquin. I just sent them to your gmail account. Owens, R.M. (1986) The Carboniferous Trilobites of Britain, Part 1. Palaeontographical Society London, 570:1-26 Tilsley, J.W. (1988) New data on Carboniferous (Dinantian) trilobites from the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 47:163-176 Tilsley, J.W., & Owens, R.M. (2003) Late Visean and Early Namurian trilobites from the northern and eastern margins of the Derbyshire Dome. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 54:237-251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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