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Quick 1.5 hour Briggs Road trilobite trip

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Thanks to @Darktooth for the helpful instructions! My mom and I spent an hour and a half at the end of the day traipsing around Briggs road. Here are some of our finds. We found parts of 12 trilobites in total and had a blast. I’m wondering if the narrow tubular fossil at the end is a crinoid or something else. Can’t wait to get home and prep some of these. I will be hunting with darktooth tomorrow so it should be lots of fun.

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The last fossil is very difficult to photograph but it has roughly quarter inch long segments that look like this

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Glad to be helpful Matt! Looks like you did well for a quick 1.5 hour hunt. We will do even better tomorrow when you have more time to spend. Which fossil is the one you think may be crinoid?

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I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie.

 

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Ok if its the last pic you posted I think that's a nautiloid. 

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The trilo in pic #2 looks like it possibly could be whole with some prep.

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I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie.

 

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The pygidium in pics #6 is from a Greenops sp.

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Good finds, Matt! I'm sure you and Dave will come back with some great stuff tomorrow. 

 

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Start the day with a smile and get it over with.

 

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Some really nice trilobits! :)

All the best to you and Dave for today, Matt. 

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Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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Those Trilobites are really cool. @mattbsharks you seem to be on a fossil hunting spree!

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On The Hunt For The Trophy Otodus!

 

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Nice trilos!

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“...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

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