RJB Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 My youngest son has been doing some research and has found a trilobite site out in the middle of what I name as 'No where's ville'. Hes going to drag me out there next week. 7 hours of driving, 3 or 4 hours of splittin shale and back home for dinner and bed. Not looking forward to all that driving, but excited to get out and about digging for old bugs. Will update this once we get back. Wish us luck. RB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Good luck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Never figured you for a trilobite hound! It does sound exciting (if exhausting), but any day out in the field has got to be better than staying around the house. Good luck out there, Ron, but don't overdo it - let your son do most of the harder work! ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Good luck! “...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...
Darktooth Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Geez Montana has dinos AND trilos ?! I gotta move! Good luck and keep us posted. 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Good luck! Take it easy but have fun and find lots of trilos! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabfossilsteve Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Go find some great bugs. I met a fellow decades ago who did some research on some trilobites out there, but never got where. Wish I had. Look forward to seeing what you find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Good for You to get out. Good luck! Looking forward to the trip report, take lots of picts. 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...
Raggedy Man Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Sounds like a blast Rob! Seems your youngest son and I have something in common...lol ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Very cool, Ron! Looking forward to seeing what you find! Have fun! 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...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 7 hours ago, RJB said: My youngest son has been doing some research and has found a trilobite site out in the middle of what I name as 'No where's ville'. Hes going to drag me out there next week. 7 hours of driving, 3 or 4 hours of splittin shale and back home for dinner and bed. Not looking forward to all that driving, but excited to get out and about digging for old bugs. Will update this once we get back. Wish us luck. RB If that was my situation, I'd be gunning it for Montana without a hesitation. No need for your son to drag you when you're one step ahead of them! Did he mention the formation name? 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...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 5 hours ago, Darktooth said: Geez Montana has dinos AND trilos ?! I gotta move! Good luck and keep us posted. Georgia also does! Trilos in the NW and dinos (in limited supply) by the 'bama border at the fall line. 1 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...
Paciphacops Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 6 hours ago, Darktooth said: Geez Montana has dinos AND trilos ?! I gotta move! Dinos and trilos AND grizzly bears! 2 "Don't force it, just use a bigger hammer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Just now, Paciphacops said: Dinos and trilos AND grizzly bears! And moss agate and crystal scepters and ammonites, OH MY! 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...
Darktooth Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 46 minutes ago, ynot said: And moss agate and crystal scepters and ammonites, OH MY! Lets not forget sapphires! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 4 minutes ago, Darktooth said: Lets not forget sapphires! OH NO, can not forget thuse (what was that again?). 1 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...
piranha Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 On 5/7/2018 at 2:04 AM, RJB said: My youngest son has been doing some research and has found a trilobite site out in the middle of what I name as 'No where's ville'. Hes going to drag me out there next week. 7 hours of driving,... RB, I'm curious where you are collecting, please give us an update on the formation. Here is a list of Montana trilobite references. A little light reading in your spare time! Bonem, R.M. 1971 Dresbachian faunal zones in Pilgrim Formation of south-Central Montana. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, 55(8):1391-1392 Bonem, R.M. 1972 Stratigraphic and faunal studies of the Pilgrim Formation in south-central Montana. pp.11-17 Montana Geological Society, pp.11-17 Brezinski, D.K. 2005 Paleobiogeographic patterns in late Mississippian trilobites of the United States with new species from Montana. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 74(2):77-90 Campbell, I., Sharp, R.P., & Gale, H.R. 1937 A new locality for Middle Cambrian fossils near Noxon, Montana. American Journal of Science, 204:411-421 Deiss, C. 1936 Revision of type Cambrian formations and sections of Montana and Yellowstone National Park. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 47(8):1257-1342 Deiss, C. 1939 Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobites of northwestern Montana. Geological Society of America, Special Paper, 18:1-135 Denson, N.M. 1939 Trilobites from the Park shale of Montana and Yellowstone National Park. M.A. Thesis, Montana State Universit, 73 pp. Denson, N.M. 1942 Late middle Cambrian trilobite faunas and stratigraphy of Alberta, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 195 pp. Dorf, E., & Lochman, C. 1940 Upper Cambrian formations in southern Montana. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 51(4):541-556 Duncan, D.C. 1937 Upper Cambrian trilobites from Montana and Yellowstone National Park. M.S. Thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, 121 pp. Easton, W.H. 1962 Carboniferous formations and faunas of central Montana. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 348:1-157 Grant, R.E. 1958 Cambrian faunas of the Snowy Range formation, southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming. PhD Thesis, University of Texas, 553 pp. Grant, R.E. 1965 Faunas and stratigraphy of the Snowy Range Formation (Upper Cambrian) in southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming. Geological Society of America Memoir, 96:1-171 Hanson, A.M. 1957 Cambrian of Crazy Mountain Basin. Montana Geological Society, pp. 48-53 Hanson, A.M. 1961 Cambrian system in the Big Horn Canyon area. Montana Geological Society, pp. 51-57 Hu, C.H. & Li, I.L. 1971 Ontogenies of four proparian trilobites from the Upper Cambrian, Montana, USA (with a description of Vernaculina lushihi, n.sp.). Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 14:165-184 Hu, C.H. 1972 Ontogeny of three Cedaria zone trilobites from Upper Cambrian, Montana. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, 85:245-259 Kauffman, M.E. 1965 Cambrian stratigraphy in the Drummond-Garnet Range area. Montana Geological Society, pp. 79-88 Kobayashi, T. 1935 The Briscoia fauna of the late Upper Cambrian in Alaska with descriptions of a few Upper Cambrian trilobites from Montana and Nevada. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography, 12(3-4):39-58 Kurtz, V.E. 1976 Biostratigraphy of the Cambrian and lowest Ordovician, Bighorn Mountains and associated uplifts in Wyoming and Montana. Brigham Young University Geology Studies, 23(2):215-227 Lochman, C., & Duncan, D. 1944 Early Upper Cambrian faunas of central Montana. Geological Society of America, Special Paper, 54:1-181 Lochman, C. 1949 Paleoecology of the Cambrian in Montana and Wyoming. In: Report of the Committee on a Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology, pp. 31-71 Lochman, C. 1950 Status of Dry Creek Shale of central Montana. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, 34(11):2200-2222 Lochman, C. 1950 Upper Cambrian faunas of the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana. Journal of Paleontology, 24(3):322-349 Lochman, C., & Duncan, D. 1950 The Lower Ordovician Bellefontia fauna in Central Montana. Journal of Paleontology, 24(3):350-353 Lochman, C. 1957 Paleoecology of the Cambrian in Montana and Wyoming. Geological Society of America Memoir, 67:117-162 Lochman, C., & Hu, C.H. 1962 An Aphelaspis Zone faunule from Logan, Montana. Journal of Paleontology, 36(3):431-441 Lochman, C. 1964 Upper Cambrian faunas From the Subsurface Deadwood Formation, Williston Basin, Montana. Journal of Paleontology, 38(1):33-60 Lochman, C. 1965 Lower Ordovician (Zone D) faunules from the Williston Basin, Montana. Journal of Paleontology, 39(3):466-486 Lochman, C. 1966 Lower Ordovician (Arenig) faunas from the Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota. Journal of Paleontology, 40(3):512-548 Merrill, G.P. 1893 The Paleozoic section in the vicinity of Three Forks, Montana. United States Geological Survey Bulletin, 110:1-56 O'Malley, D.P. 1985. Trilobite biostratigraphy of the Gordon Shale in the southern part of the Libby Trough, Sanders County, Montana. M.S. Thesis, Washington State University, 146 pp. Ross, R.J. 1957 Ordovician fossils from wells in the Williston basin, eastern Montana. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1021M:439-510 Schwimmer, D.R. 1973 The Middle-Cambrian biostratigraphy of Montana and Wyoming. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 452 pp. Schwimmer, D.R. 1975 Quantitative taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Middle Cambrian trilobites from Montana and Wyoming. Mathematical Geology, 7(2):149-166 Theodosis, S.D. 1955 Cambrian system in northwestern Montana. Montana Geological Society, pp. 64-69 Thomas, R.C. 1987 Paleontology and carbonate petrology across the Marjumiid-Pterocephaliid biomere boundary, Southwestern Montana. M.S. Thesis, University of Montana, 147 pp. Walcott, C.D. 1916 Cambrian Geology and Paleontology III, No.4 Relations vetween the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian formations in the vicinity of Helena, Montana. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 64(4):259-302 Walcott, C.D. 1917 Cambrian Geology and Paleontology IV, No. 2. The Albertella fauna in British Columbia and Montana. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 67(2):9-59 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 Wow, thanks everyone. and @piranha, thanks for all the info. I have always know that there were trilo sites here, and even found two of them, (both sites you are not alowed to dig) but never had the time to go. I was always busy with building and my crabs and ammonites. Oh, and pirana, I will try and get the formation from you. And ynot. lots of pictures for you. We leave this Sunday morning. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmshoemaker Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 On 5/7/2018 at 2:37 PM, piranha said: RB, I'm curious where you are collecting, please give us an update on the formation. Here is a list of Montana trilobite references. A little light reading in your spare time! Lochman, C. 1964 Upper Cambrian faunas From the Subsurface Deadwood Formation, Williston Basin, Montana. Journal of Paleontology, 38(1):33-60 Huh, I'm surprised the Deadwood has fossils, we looked at it in Montana on our field camp and man it was completely barren of fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Hey Ron, Good luck in the hunt, and don't forget to bring back lots of spares for all of us if you find them - none of this "has to be perfect" baloney! I'm curious what age/formation it is, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 13 hours ago, Lmshoemaker said: Huh, I'm surprised the Deadwood has fossils, we looked at it in Montana on our field camp and man it was completely barren of fossils. As the title suggests, the trilobites are from subsurface core samples. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted May 14, 2018 Author Share Posted May 14, 2018 Ok, it was actually 9 hours of driving and 3 hours of splittin shale. We did find some stuff, but its gunna take a couple of days before I can get to it. It was tuff splittin shale with half a numb body but was really nice to get out into mother nature. Nice day too. Lots of nice warm sunshine and surrounded by trees. RB 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 3 hours ago, RJB said: Ok, it was actually 9 hours of driving and 3 hours of splittin shale. We did find some stuff, but its gunna take a couple of days before I can get to it. It was tuff splittin shale with half a numb body but was really nice to get out into mother nature. Nice day too. Lots of nice warm sunshine and surrounded by trees. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Pretty place to hunt for trilobites! (or any other type of rock.) Glad You got to get out on a hunt. 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...
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