aek Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Found this in Grant county, WI. Partial eye stalk? Asaphus? Any ideas, Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Could very well be an eye stalk. Hard to tell, though. Prep to reveal more? Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Certainly looks like one to me. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indominus rex Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Maybe there is more of the trilobite. I agree with the others. Life started in the ocean. And so did my interest in fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Yes; look for more of him! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Sure is, note that the little groove behind the eye matches up with Auspex's picture. That plate is full of trilobites! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aek Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 Nice, thanks for the feedback everyone. Unfortunately, doesn't look like the rest of him is there but I'll keep poking around, lots of interesting material all over this plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 I do love asaphids, very cool indeed! “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xDiamondX Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Looks like a Asaphus kowalewski to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 It would not be Asaphus kowalewskii as I don't think they have been reported in the US. Text from: Ivantsov, A. Yu (2003). "Ordovician Trilobites of the Subfamily Asaphinae of the Ladoga Glint" Paleontological Journal Vol. 37. Suppl. 3. pp. S229-S337. "Occurrence: Middle Ordovician, Llanvirn, Aseri Horizon, upper part of the intermedius—kowalewskii Beds; upper half of the Duboviki Formation. Outside the Ladoga Glint: Baltic Glint, Leningrad Region, upper part of the Duboviki (?) Formation; Estonia, Aseri Formation (Balashova, 1953, 1976; Roomusoks, 1960); Moscow Syneclise, Valdai Monocline, Polomet' Formation (Alikhova, 1960; Dmitrovskaya, 1991); northeastern Poland, Biafowieza Region, Pomorze Beds (Bednarczyk, 1966)." ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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