Manticocerasman Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Saturday 09/06/2018 the BVP ( read: local paleontology club ) organised a fieldtrip to the quarry of " La Couvinoise" next to the town of Couvin. Here we find Eifelian deposits (former Couvinian ) We had a very nice day with various finds and the whole day we had the background noise of a chorus of green frogs who had made their home in the large pound in the old part af the quarry. The site delivered a multitude of fossil corals and brachiopods and sometimes a gastropod or even a trilobite fragment. the start of the excurtion: Lumachelle of Stringocephalus burtuni: the frog pond in the quarry: the bottom of the quarry: some of the finds: large Atrypas: Sieberella: Calceola sandalina: A nice large favosites: And my girlfriend made the find of the day: the cephalon of a phacopid trilobite: 6 growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 That's a really neat report @Manticocerasman - I really like it That phacopid cephalon is rather cool, BTW Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy! Q. Where do dinosaurs study? A. At Khaan Academy!... My ResearchGate profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Way to go Kev. Great reporting,great finds!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Nice finds, thanks for sharing! I wonder if the cool Cephalon might have more hidden under the matrix. “...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...
Jeffrey P Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 As usual very cool looking specimens Kevin. The pictures are a definite plus as well. It is remarkable how similar your specimens are to ones we find on this side of the Atlantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticocerasman Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 2 hours ago, The Amateur Paleontologist said: That's a really neat report @Manticocerasman - I really like it That phacopid cephalon is rather cool, BTW Thanks 2 hours ago, doushantuo said: Way to go Kev. Great reporting,great finds!! Thank ou Ben 1 hour ago, WhodamanHD said: Nice finds, thanks for sharing! I wonder if the cool Cephalon might have more hidden under the matrix. probably the rest of the cephalon, but probbably nothing more. most trilobites from here are loose fragments. 56 minutes ago, Jeffrey P said: As usual very cool looking specimens Kevin. The pictures are a definite plus as well. It is remarkable how similar your specimens are to ones we find on this side of the Atlantic. Wel during the Devonian period both locations where relatively close to each other. ( N.America was next to Europe then ) growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 There are 3 Couvin phacopids according to Van Viersen & Vanherle 2018. Pedinopariops has too many eye lenses and smaller tubercles on the glabella, so it must be Geesops or Phacops. If we can see a photo showing all the eye lenses it might be possible to determine the species. It also looks like the left eye can be revealed with a minimum amount prep. Congrats on the nice finds! chart from: Van Viersen, A.P., & Vanherle, W. 2018 The rise and fall of Late Devonian (Frasnian) trilobites from Belgium: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and events. Geologica Belgica, 21(1-2): 73-94 PDF LINK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Great report and nice finds. Love the brachiopods. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Nice find! Sounds like You had a good day. 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...
Manticocerasman Posted June 11, 2018 Author Share Posted June 11, 2018 6 hours ago, piranha said: There are 3 Couvin phacopids according to Van Viersen & Vanherle 2018. Pedinopariops has too many eye lenses and smaller tubercles on the glabella, so it must be Geesops or Phacops. If we can see a photo showing all the eye lenses it might be possible to determine the species. It also looks like the left eye can be revealed with a minimum amount prep. Congrats on the nice finds! chart from: Van Viersen, A.P., & Vanherle, W. 2018 The rise and fall of Late Devonian (Frasnian) trilobites from Belgium: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and events. Geologica Belgica, 21(1-2): 73-94 PDF LINK The location is Couvin, but not the formation of couvin. The rocks from this quarry are from the Hannonet formation. So the deposits with Nyterops and such. growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Sieberella 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 BTW,very much like the Favositid and Calceolina!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 15 hours ago, Manticocerasman said: The location is Couvin, but not the formation of couvin. The rocks from this quarry are from the Hannonet formation. So the deposits with Nyterops and such. That can certainly be confusing! Thanks for clarifying the formation. With those large knobby tubercles it is either Hypsipariops or Nyterops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 Love the Favosites!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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