Bobby Rico Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Hi all I hope I do not wear out my welcome by keep posting so many questions . Found this years ago in a time before I got hooked on fossil collecting .I think it was in the Brecon Beacons . Is it is part of a trilobite.... or that is really what I was hoping. Thanks to everyone who posted on my last question really all enjoyed all your reposones . Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GeschWhat Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Bobby...don't worry about wearing out your welcome. We are all here because we LOVE fossils and want to learn as well as help when we can! Sorry, I can't help with this one, but I'm sure someone here will be able to help! 2 Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Not really sure, but it looks like a crab carapace to Me. 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...
Ludwigia Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 The Brecon Beacons are paleozoic, so that would eliminate crabs, although it certainly does look like a carapace at first glance. What we need here is a trilobite expert, I think. 2 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 Hi is there a trilobite expert in the house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 @piranha knows a lot about trilobites... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I'm afraid this is not a trilobite, but i'm also afraid i'm not a trilobite expert, so i'm afraid you'll have to wait for the opinion of @FossilDAWG and @piranha. I'm afraid. 2 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 A limule, maybe (horseshoe crab) ? "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 Hi everyone l was hoping there is a trilobite expert on line . I still think but I don't know why this looks like part of trilobite to me. As Ludwigia said " The Brecon Beacons are paleozoic, so that would eliminate crabs," sorry for asking again and making this might be a bit boring. Thank you all for the help. Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 If it is trilobite it could be something like Bumastus... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 Yes you maybe on to something thank you westcoast . Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 " The principal types of mineralisation in South Wales are (Bevins and Mason 2000): millerite-bearing ironstones of the coalfield; oxide-facies iron; iron-manganese; cavity infill in limestones; Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) lead-zinc-barium-fluorine; wavellite in Carboniferous rocks; late iron sulphide veins; evaporites; supergene Pb-Zn-(Cu) alteration. Minerals in the coalfield are found notably within the clay-ironstone nodules widespread in the Westphalian (Upper Carboniferous) Coal Measures. These clay-ironstone nodules often show internal diagenetic “septarian” cavities lined with siderite. In addition they may contain ankerite and small amounts of other minerals (some rare), often as attractive and well-formed crystals, in varying amounts and distribution. These minerals include quartz (“Merthyr diamonds”), calcite, baryte, dickite, carbonate-fluorapatite, hydrocarbons (hattchettite and others), and sulphides including sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite, marcasite, millerite, more rarely siegenite, also alteration products. " - as stated here . I'll go with a nodule with septarian propagation cracks. here 7 " 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...
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Bobby Rico Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 Trilobite Bumastus ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 There could be 150 MY difference between them. 2 " 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...
Bobby Rico Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 You are right of course but I think it is more like a fossil and not so much like a septarain nodule. And trilobite are found at the Brecon Beacons I think too. But thank you for your help you maybe right . Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 You might be right to see a trilobite here. But be careful, because when one sees in something the thing he wants to have he persuades himself to have it and have a tendency not to hear the arguments of people that don't see the same thing. I don't say that you have no trilobite here, but i do see the cracks @abyssunder speaks about. I also see that some of those cracks persist on the matrix. According to me there is nothing that shows for sure this is a fossil of trilobite. You should try to desengage a bit of it to see if there is something that would help for its identification ? But maybe @LordTrilobite would have an idea about this and tell us if he sees a trilobite here or no ? 2 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taogan Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 If this is from the Brecon Beacons we can be sure that it is not Bumastus. Most of the Beacons are Carboniferous. I would guess it is geological, but I am not 100% 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 There are Silurian rocks near Llandovery (Llandovery Epoch). I also suggest the piece needs some work to expose a bit more of the edges. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Thank everyone for the more than great info . You all have been a really great help. I have been collecting fossil and minerals for more than 28years but never been good at identifying specific species but this really looks like a fossil . Also I may have mixed up my location info on this specimen when I got bungled . Thank again this is a great site to be a part of. Bobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Sorrry for that burgle, it's not something i would like to be victim of. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Please it was a long time ago and I really do not think much about it now . I was just trying to work out why it is not got my numbering system on it . Thank you for all your info very interesting. Bobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 16 hours ago, fifbrindacier said: But maybe @LordTrilobite would have an idea about this and tell us if he sees a trilobite here or no ? It seems to have some suggestive shapes. But I don't really see a trilobite here. I'm not a trilobite expert either though. 1 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 Hi everyone I am really sorry I made an location mixed up with this ID. been really dyslexic and had a mix up with the lables years ago. I got the number back to front in my location note book. The real location is Ayrshire Scotland. It was over 20 years ago I pencilled an Id at the time as Stenopareia trilobite but I can't find any info on that trilobite specimens now. If this post is not too old and anybody has any ideas please let me know. Thanks Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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