Arizona Chris Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Hi all, Winter is the perfect time of the year to collect cambrian fossils in South Eastern Arizona. Its temperatures are perfect, its not raining and traffic is low. We will have lots of material to cover here, but I thought Id start off by posting a few shots of tiny inarticulate brachs from tonights scope shooting session. I used photoshops "contact sheet" function and it worked pretty good. The Abrigo is middle cambrian and upper cambrian. The lower part is the same age (and ocean) as the Bright Angel Shale in northern Arizona. The upper Abrigo is upper Cambrian and is a latter period which is not represented in the BAS. I wont be identifying these at this point, but they are probably Lingulella or Billinslella sp. Oh isnt the Cambrian FUN?! 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Chris Paleo Web Site: http://schursastrophotography.com/fossiladventures.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Nice presentation of an overlooked group for that age. I've got a grand total of 1 Cambrian brach in my collection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Beautiful little critters and a wonderful use of technology. Love these! I too have only the one Cambrian brachiopod, Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Nice start! Looking forward to seeing what else You find there. 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...
doushantuo Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Chris:nobody has ever found a Billins l ella. Meanwhile: anybody working Cambrian strata has my support,not to mention admiration. Agree with Tidge and Tony:NICE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Chris Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 The Abrigo is far more fossiliferous than the Bright Angel Shale, and there are plenty of proto crinoids, hyalithids and trilobites. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Chris Paleo Web Site: http://schursastrophotography.com/fossiladventures.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Do we get to see the hyoliths soon? Pretty please! I find hyoliths absolutely fascinating. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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