My Wanakah shale Greenops trilobites

[Al Tahan]

Hello everyone,

 

When I joined the forum I shared a few of my Buffalo, New York trilobites but only my rare Pseudodechenella rowi trilobites. I said I was eventually share some other trilobites so here I am haha. The winter has kinda been a bummer recently in upstate New York but we just had a freak warm day recently. 

 

In the future I want to share my Eldredgeops collection, brachs, cephalopods, plant specimens but I’m not going to rush it. In this post I’m going to share some of my Greenops sp. that I have collected exclusively from the wanakah shale on the Lake Erie shore south of Buffalo, New York.

 

I think I may have an example of Greenops barberi and Greenops grabaui in my collection but I guess I’m not 100% confident in the ID. 

These 4 are probably my best specimens I’ve managed. For reasons most likely related to environment they are not common and they do not like to preserve well. I would consider them pretty rare actually. Ill follow up with a few more photos of some “lower shelf” specimens I’ve found lol. 

[Al Tahan]

These I would consider my next tier of specimens....they all have issues...as these trilobites often seem to have from the Wanakah shale. The one on the left is the first “mostly complete” trilobite I ever found. That was an 18 mile creek find just sitting on the ground. 

 

 

 

These fragments are hurting pretty badly here but there was a time I was happy to just have something of these critters.

 

 

 

these “headless” specimens are pretty cool I think. The right is a great display of a molt where the head probably didn’t disarticulate 100% and was buried with it. Neat  

 

 

 

these are my only 2 rollers.....far more prone are found in my experience...hmmm

then my container with my pygidiums/cephalons ready for trade/display someday.

 

[Al Tahan]

Lastly I’ll just toss up some close up photos of this guy. I really like this one cause the genial spines are both there and popping!!! The genial spines are easily messed up lol. Not here.

 

Too bad there is cephalon damage..I do have the counterpart and I think some material is connected to that...I’m not skilled enough to do the work unfortunately. 

 

Anyway, hope everyone enjoys! Thanks for reading. 

 

Al 

[Fossildude19]

Great collection of Greenops, Al. 

You'll really like the Deep Springs Road site, where Greenops are a bit more common than the Eldredgeops.  

[Jeffrey P]

Congratulations Al on the Greenops specimens. Your top shelf individuals really are superb. I agree with Tim, Fossildude19, that Deep Springs Road  Quarry is an excellent source of complete Greenops specimens. I average a complete Greenops specimen at least every other time I go there.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice trilos!

I really like the rollers.

[ynot]

Nice looking selection of trilobites.

Thanks for sharing.

[Al Tahan]

@Fossildude19 @Jeffrey P Very interesting!!! Can’t wait to find more. I know the depositional setting was more favorable to the east...dipleura also shows up  

 

thanks! @ynot @Tidgy's Dad 

[Al Tahan]

Eh why not toss these in as well....these are my Bellacartwrightia trilobites from the wanakah shale. Thanks to the forum for the positive IDs couple months back. They used to be lumped in with Greenops then were split into their own genus.

This last photo shows a comparison to a Greenops grabaui (right)....

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice comparison photo.

Gotta love these spiny pygidia.