Cambrian oddysey

[juan]

Hi everybody!!! How's life my friends ??? It's been a long time

Recently I went with my father to look for trilobites in Cambrian sediments. Sadly we didn't found any complete trilo, but we've found other specimens. I Hope you like It

[juan]

[juan]

[Fossildude19]

Nice pictures, and decent finds.

Thanks for posting, Juan! 

Regards,

[Miocene_Mason]

Nice finds!

[Arizona Chris]

I love those rust colored impressions.  And that rock your finding the fossils in looks very rich!

[Jeffrey P]

That matrix looks very rich in trilobite parts. Very impressive, especially for Cambrian material. Thanks for sharing it with us. 

[Wrangellian]

Where are they from... Morocco?

[Monica]

Nice trilobite bits!

[minnbuckeye]

Nice trilobits, It reminds me of my local Cambrian material in the way the masses of trilobites were preserved. Color in particular is identical. What species do you have posted?

[Seaforth]

Ahhh the beautifull  Selenopleuropsis :-)

 

Wonderfull trilobite, very jealous.

[piranha]

2 hours ago, Seaforth said:

Selenopleuropsis 

 

 

Solenopleuropsis   

 

There are also other genera present: 

 

 Conocoryphe sp.                     Conocoryphe sp.             Eccaparadoxides sp.

 

 

Here is an excellent monograph:

 

Liñán, E., & Gozalo, R. (1986)
Trilobites del Cámbrico Inferior y Medio de Murero (Cordillera Ibérica). 
Memorias del Museo Paleontológico de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2:1-104

[juan]

22 hours ago, Arizona Chris said:

I love those rust colored impressions.  And that rock your finding the fossils in looks very rich!

Yeah, it´s very rich in fossils. There aren´t too much complete specimens, but there are a lot of fossils.

20 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Where are they from... Morocco?

No, from Spain.

[juan]

9 hours ago, minnbuckeye said:

Nice trilobits, It reminds me of my local Cambrian material in the way the masses of trilobites were preserved. Color in particular is identical. What species do you have posted?

Really? Interesting Do you have photos? I would like to ser It

As Piranha said, the species are: Solenopleuropsis, Conocoryphe and Eccaparadoxides.

3 hours ago, piranha said:

 

 

Solenopleuropsis   

 

There are also other genera present: 

 

 Conocoryphe sp.                     Conocoryphe sp.             Eccaparadoxides sp.

 

 

Here is an excellent monograph:

 

Liñán, E., & Gozalo, R. (1986)
Trilobites del Cámbrico Inferior y Medio de Murero (Cordillera Ibérica). 
Memorias del Museo Paleontológico de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2:1-104

Thanks, I´ll take a look

[piranha]

12 minutes ago, juan said:

Thanks, I´ll take a look

 

 

Unless you already have a copy, that might be difficult. 

 

The book is held at Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, and universities in Barcelona, Pamplona, Salamanca, Valencia.

Luckily I have a pdf.  Please send me a PM with your email address and I'll be happy to send it for you.     

[minnbuckeye]

Juan, This is the type of matrix that contains our local Cambrian trilobites. If you would be interested in trading , let me know!!!

 

[juan]

On ‎09‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 11:33 PM, Fossildude19 said:

Nice pictures, and decent finds.

Thanks for posting, Juan! 

Regards,

You´re welcome

 

I´m glad you like it

[piranha]

11 hours ago, minnbuckeye said:

...What species do you have posted?

 

1 hour ago, minnbuckeye said:

This is the type of matrix that contains our local Cambrian trilobites. If you would be interested in trading , let me know!!!

 

 

It's ironic that you asked what species are posted.  Then why not tell everyone the ID of these trilobites?  
Since I took the time over 2 years ago to ID them, here they are again in case anyone else is interested.

 

 

[juan]

Thank you everybody. I'm glad you like It

I was looking for the best specimen from that site. And there it is. It was found by my brother in law some months ago: a great specimen of Eccaparadoxides.

[Wrangellian]

On 10/10/2017 at 2:24 PM, juan said:

Yeah, it´s very rich in fossils. There aren´t too much complete specimens, but there are a lot of fossils.

No, from Spain.

Ah, good... more interesting to see stuff we don't see often.

[Plax]

you may find more complete trilobites outside the hash layer. It is tough to look for fossils where they aren't abundant though and will take a lot more hammering. I recall spending a lot of time happily collecting ordovician trilobites as frags from a specific layer and then a friend found one complete in a rock with no frags or other indications of fossils.