Bcurd Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 My son found this unique fossil in our creek bed. Anyone know what this is? Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Welcome to TFF! Your son has a good eye. That is a trilobite. Others will be more specific with a species name. 2 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...
abyssunder Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 It's a trilobite and it is nicely rolled. 1 " 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...
Darktooth Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Welcome to the forum from New York! That is a nice trilobite! It looks to be in good condition for being found in a creek. Clearer pics will help to give a more precise identification. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Bit blurry. Enrolled Flexicalymene? 2 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 3 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Bit blurry. Enrolled Flexicalymene? I concur, may we get a more specific (maybe a town) Location? Something tells me this may have found its way there through anthropology if means (or maybe that’s just a feeling) “...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...
Bcurd Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 It's a Flexicalymine for sure. Actually we found the identical fossil on a Google search for rolled up trilobite shortly after posting here. We live in southeast Indiana. It is from the Richmond formation. Thanks for the replies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xDiamondX Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 9 minutes ago, Bcurd said: It's a Flexicalymine for sure. Actually we found the identical fossil on a Google search for rolled up trilobite shortly after posting here. We live in southeast Indiana. It is from the Richmond formation. Thanks for the replies! Was it just exposed on the ground? No digging required? That's pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bcurd Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Yes, it was in a creek bed in a huge valley that the water runs 8-10 feet deep during and after heavy rains. The water does all the digging. ☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Probably Flexicalymene meeki. Late Ordovician. Very nice find! Congrats! You're in a world class locality for Late Ordovician fossils. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Very nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 +1 for F. meeki, and welcome to TFF from New York! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Now work on those photography skills and get out there a find some more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Flexicalymene blurry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xDiamondX Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 9 hours ago, Pumpkinhead said: Flexicalymene blurry I like your sense of humour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Wow. You might have worked out a new method for trilo prepping: creek method. really cool find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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