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I don't know whether to laugh or cry on this one. Found an enrolled Trilobite in my micro matrix. :megdance:Gave it a nice spa treatment of hydrogen peroxide & got most of the matrix off. :raindance: And then took a look at it with my dino lite & found that it has almost no head. :faint: Thing is maybe 3.5 mm across and the one thing I didn't actually expect to find. No idea if it can even be identified now, but here's the pics anyway. Pics are 45 x magnification.

Jasper Creek Formation. 

Late Pennsylvanian.

 

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wow!  that is incredible!  Where was the mix from?

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9 minutes ago, Walt said:

wow!  that is incredible!  Where was the mix from?

Jasper Creek..... I really need to look at the tags before asking questions :doh!:

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19 minutes ago, Darktooth said:

Looks more like a brachiopod to me.

Agreed

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segments are very faint...but looks like an enrolled trilobite to me.  Albeit a very abused bug :)

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Brachiopod or Bellerophontidae gastropod.  :unsure: 
Not seeing a trilobite here at all. No pleura whatsoever. :headscratch:

 

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7 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

No pleura whatsoever

Axial lobe?  wishful thinking?  If a brachipod, aren't the segments going in the wrong direction?

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I'm with the others. I don't know of any trilobites that would have striations along the saggital axis. Pennsylvanian age trilobites would be exclusively proetids, and their cephala would be either smooth/effaced, or have faint growth lines that would contour the cephalic border. 

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gastropod,

P, Pharkidontus percarinatus.jpg

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13 minutes ago, Herb said:

brachiopod,

P, Pharkidontus percarinatus.jpg

If you think it is a brachiopod, why did you post a photo of a Pharkidonotus carinatus, which is a bellerophontid gastropod?

 

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3 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

If you think it is a brachiopod, why did you post a photo of a Pharkidonotus carinatus, which is a bellerophontid gastropod?

 

Don

WOW!, my bad, a Gastropod.

I'm so ashamed . Should learn to proofread, I guess.:doh!:

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Just now, Herb said:

I'm so ashamed

Hey, I'm the one that tried to convince them it was a trilobite :)

 

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Just now, Walt said:

Hey, I'm the one that tried to convince them it was a trilobite :)

 

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11 minutes ago, Herb said:

WOW!, my bad, a Gastropod.

I'm so ashamed . Should learn to proofread, I guess.:doh!:

I think we've all done that at one time or another.  I certainly have.  And I'll admit they look like a productid brachiopod at a quick glance.

 

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1 minute ago, FossilDAWG said:

I think we've all done that at one time or another.  I certainly have.  And I'll admit they look like a productid brachiopod at a quick glance.

 

Don

no, just a case of thinking one thing and typing another. Getting old.

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I'm reminded of when a classmate blurted out "Pharkidonotus" while we were cramming for a paleo lab exam. True story. :)

Context is critical.

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*sigh* Found it online.. Bellerophon gastropod variation Pharkidonotus Upper Pennsylvanian 303 to 301 mya. Aw well..  Still kinda cool, even if it's broken. 

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1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

Family of Yodas 

Pretty much. lol Oh! :doh!: That's what I found... A PRE Yoda! :hearty-laugh:

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