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Hi, today i went back were i found my first trilobites but this time my husband and i went a little further on the way.

 

It's a mythic col in the history of the cycle race Tour de France, a hard pass to reach and the cycles amateurs love to climb it.

They were numerous to do so, the sun was shining and hot, it is summer and as childs are on holidays there was a lot of families.

So, we arrived there early to have the most time possible alone. For that we woke up at five o'clock, started at six and were up there at about eight.

 

There, among some lovely flowers,

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Lovely horses,

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And lovely landscape,

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We found little bugs.

Some corals and a branch like thing :

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Trilobites stuff, of course

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And those little bugs. Are they trilobites larvae ? I really don't know.

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1 minute ago, Innocentx said:

Beautiful place. Did you hike or cycle?

Neither, we have a little more than two hours of car to go there.

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10 minutes ago, ynot said:

Wonderful place to hunt for fossils. Such nice views.

Thank you.:D

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Just now, ynot said:

OH - I forgot to say-- wonderful fossils too!

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Lovely photos, I adore those horses and the views! :wub:

Some great finds too, you must be very pleased with the trilos. 

The 'trilobite larvae' are actually the internal molds of brachiopods! :)

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1 minute ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Lovely photos, I adore those horses and the views! :wub:

Some great finds too, you must be very pleased with the trilos. 

The 'trilobite larvae' are actually the internal molds of brachiopods! :)

Ah, ok, i just wondered what those things could really be.

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1 hour ago, fifbrindacier said:

Lovely horses,

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why is he wearing a party hat?  Was it his birthday? :)

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Great alpine landscape with great fossils. You both had a realy nice day. Thanks for sharing!
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The Pyrenees Mountains were something that we had to learn about in high school geography or possibly use as an answerin the tv game show "jeopardy". I have always remembered where the mountain chain was located, but I had no visual concept of the mountains, only a dot on a map. Thanks for bringing these mountains alive and with such vivid color. They are beautiful and much taller than I anticipated. I used google earth to tour the region and found spots that were around 9500 feet tall!

 

As for the fossils, they are great finds too. I love picking up fossils at this kind of elevation because it shows just how dynamic our earth's crust is.

 

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On 8/19/2018 at 3:43 PM, fifbrindacier said:

And those little bugs. Are they trilobites larvae ? I really don't know.

Those are brachiopods. The little imprint on top is called the delthyrium I think. 

 

Nice finds 

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2 hours ago, minnbuckeye said:

The Pyrenees Mountains were something that we had to learn about in high school geography or possibly use as an answerin the tv game show "jeopardy". I have always remembered where the mountain chain was located, but I had no visual concept of the mountains, only a dot on a map. Thanks for bringing these mountains alive and with such vivid color. They are beautiful and much taller than I anticipated. I used google earth to tour the region and found spots that were around 9500 feet tall!

 

As for the fossils, they are great finds too. I love picking up fossils at this kind of elevation because it shows just how dynamic our earth's crust is.

 

Mike

The stars of the European mountains are the Alps. They spread on several countries : France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Switzerland, Czech republic, Croatia,... All the great competitions of alpin skiing occur in the Alps.

The Pyrenees only spread on France and Spain. They are less hight and have less snow, so, they're less known and there is less tourism. But, being smaller, the landscape give you the impression to be nearer, almost more "human".

Its highter pic, the Aneto, is in Spain and is about 11 168 feet hight.

1 hour ago, Raggedy Man said:

Beautiful draft horses. Belgians yes?

Euh, i really don't know.

 

38 minutes ago, Manticocerasman said:

Those are brachiopods. The little inprint on top is called the delthyrium I think. 

 

Nice finds 

I found out they were Schizophoriae.

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