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I was very fortunate to attend the Penn Dixie Dig with Experts event this past weekend. If you ever get the chance to go it is a don't miss event. I only collected on Friday but did come away with 10 complete bugs for myself. Saturday and Sunday I was there to try to help people as best I could. I know I cut out so many incredible bugs and multi plates for people that my back is still sore  from bending down.. Here is a real gem over two inches long that was found by one of the American collectors who traveled up from Kentucky. Here is the bug as he found it.`

 

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Here it is at the beginning of prep back in my lab with a bit of the matrix already scribed off.

 

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Here it is after about an hour of prep.

 

 

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The bug was obviously one of the better ones to be found that weekend, somehow it end up making the trip up to Canada. The bug was perfect except for a damaged pleura, the first on the left. In the next pic that pleura has been repaired and the bug is essentially complete except for a final cleanup once the repair media has set overnight.

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Beautiful fossil! Awesome prep job! Big congratulations to both finder and preparer. 

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7 hours ago, Peto Lithos said:

That's beautiful Malcolm.

+1

 

8 hours ago, Malcolmt said:

I was very fortunate to attend the Penn Dixie Dig with Experts event this past weekend. If you ever get the chance to go it is a don't miss event. I only collected on Friday but did come away with 10 complete bugs for myself. Saturday and Sunday I was there to try to help people as best I could. I know I cut out so many incredible bugs and multi plates for people that my back is still sore  from bending down.

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Confirmatory evidence.

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Excellent prep as usual, Malcolm. :) 

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I’ve found several more trilobites (or trilo-bits) this morning. I really like these:

 

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Nice Greenops bits. :) 

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43 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Nice Greenops bits. :) 

Thanks! I was still trying to figure out exactly what they were. :) 

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19 hours ago, BLT said:

I’m wondering if this is just one very long horn coral or is it two? :zzzzscratchchin: 

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Entirely possible it's just one. That's the Bay View Coral bed material, and when you can keep it all together, it's truly amazing the things that are in it. Certainly home to many long corals, and like you see lower in the image, crinoids. Nice find!

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46 minutes ago, DevonianDigger said:

Entirely possible it's just one. That's the Bay View Coral bed material, and when you can keep it all together, it's truly amazing the things that are in it. Certainly hope to many long corals, and like you see lower in the image, crinoids. Nice find!

Thanks! I’m having a lot of fun going through all of it. I always get excited whenever I find a fossil intact, instead of the usual bits and pieces in the hash plates. :) 

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I was disappointed that this trilobite wasn’t intact when it popped out of the rock I was splitting. 

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