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Another successful Triloday in St Leon Indiana

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10 flexis from about as small as they get to as big as they get in St Leon. I now have both my new largest and smallest flexi from this location.

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Nimravis Regular Member

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Wow, nice finds- I will be down there sometime around the beginning of November, I really need to get low to the ground. Thanks for sharing.

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2 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

Wow, nice finds- I will be down there sometime around the beginning of November, I really need to get low to the ground. Thanks for sharing.

Three and a half hours on my hands and knees to find them.

 

I don't even know how I saw that little tiny one

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Nice finds.

 

19 minutes ago, Fossil Claw said:

I don't even know how I saw that little tiny one

I call it "visual magnification".

They never look as big when You get home and look at them.

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Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection

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33 minutes ago, Fossil Claw said:

Three and a half hours on my hands and knees to find them.

 

I don't even know how I saw that little tiny one

That is why I will be staying a full day there looking, the other times were for just a couple of hours. I hope to find some on this trip.

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Nice trilobites!

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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40 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

That is why I will be staying a full day there looking, the other times were for just a couple of hours. I hope to find some on this trip.

Have you found any there before? If not I'd be happy to meet you there and show you exactly where I find them.

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13 minutes ago, Fossil Claw said:

Have you found any there before? If not I'd be happy to meet you there and show you exactly where I find them.

No individual ones, I did find a couple hash plates with trilobite pieces on them. I will let you know when I will be down there and if you want to stop down, your are welcome to join me, I never deny company- the wife definitetly will not be at the road cut, she will be in the hotel.

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Thanks these are from the same location is the Small life cycle series that you

20 minutes ago, Monica said:

Congratulations, @Fossil Claw - AMAZING finds!!! :yay-smiley-1:

won in the auction for the.

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4 hours ago, Fossil Claw said:

Thanks these are from the same location is the Small life cycle series that you

won in the auction for the.

 

I thought they looked like my little guys!  I still enjoy gazing at the ones you sent me from TFF auction a while back - they're SO adorable!!!  You obviously have a knack for searching out these itty bitty trilos! :)

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That one is downright tiny!

"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."

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Great finds! Glad you had a successful hunt!

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I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie.

 

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Funny this post has new life today, I was just at St Leon with my wife and stepdaughter yesterday.

 

My stepdaughter found two awesome trilobites and I found four.

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1 hour ago, Fossil Claw said:

Funny this post has new life today, I was just at St Leon with my wife and stepdaughter yesterday.

 

My stepdaughter found two awesome trilobites and I found four.

Pics or it didn't happen :)

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35 minutes ago, RJB said:

Holy cow.  I dont think I would even see those if I was there hunting?  Nice job

 

RB

You have to crawl on hands and knees.

 

These are bigger ones for St. Leon.

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54 minutes ago, Fossil Claw said:

You have to crawl on hands and knees.

 

These are bigger ones for St. Leon.

Nice score.  Those are in good shape.  A lot of crawling and squinting and brachiopod false alarms represented there! 

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2 hours ago, Peat Burns said:

Nice score.  Those are in good shape.  A lot of crawling and squinting and brachiopod false alarms represented there! 

I also found something pretty neat I haven't found at St. Leon before.

 

I always find the little tiny Mini brachiopods that you mention above that can end up being trilobite false alarms.

 

This time I found a couple of clusters of the mini brachiopods that are cemented together with some Matrix. I've only ever found them individually or embedded in a hash plate.

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1 minute ago, Fossil Claw said:

I also found something pretty neat I haven't found at St. Leon before.

 

I always find the little tiny Mini brachiopods that you mention above that can end up being trilobite false alarms.

 

This time I found a couple of clusters of the mini brachiopods that are cemented together with some Matrix. I've only ever found them individually or embedded in a hash plate.

 

 

 

Oooh, that is unusual.  I've never seen a Zygospira "conglomerate" like that.  Very neat.

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I agree, those Zygospira nests are amazing! :wub:

The little trilobites are gorgeous too, of course! 

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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