Some goodies from the last few monthes (Trilobites heavy topic)

[elcoincoin]

Hi all,

I have been more or less away from the forum for the last few monthes.

Life has been hectic. And if i still managed to go on the field quite a lot, i did have any time left for the rest (writing, taking photos, processing stuff, labelling etc).

Nevertheless, i finally manage a quick photo session.

As an appetizer, what is prolly the best piece for quite some time.

A double trilo, Eodalmanitina sp, one preserved with his caudal spine. So 2 rocks as a starter .

I had to sacrifice part of the 2 counterprints, to unveil the opposite trilo...

 

Regards.

[Darktooth]

Nice finds!

[elcoincoin]

forgot to post this one : how it was found : 1 half buried and 1 broken in 2  with 1 half in the wrong rock

[Wrangellian]

Nice ones. Here is what that one might have looked like before it was distorted... (Fun doing this)

I had to shorten the pic to less than 50% of its original length!

 

[RJB]

  Will you glue on the 'wrong' piece of rock and prep out the trilobite?

 

RB

[elcoincoin]

i thought i wouldnt manage to save the second one at all. I thought the part on the same half than the other trilo would just shatter away. But luckily while removing the matrix on the first one, the vibrations made the trilo pop out in only 2 pieces. Which i glued on the other  block which the rest of it. Also the matrix started to show growing cracks.

So apart from maybe some small finitions, it will stay as it is now.

 

 

[elcoincoin]

Then comes that big fellow. actually beside sawing the block since it was like 1 meter long, i didnt touch it yet and maybe i wont. It did split reallt good.

 

Ectillaenus Giganteus, south of Rennes - France, found in may. Size about 15 cm long.

[Wrangellian]

Great one! I would leave that one exactly as is.

What is the length of the trilobite?

[Wrangellian]

OK, I had to do this one:

 

[elcoincoin]

now a small specie from another spot in the same area. Just perfect

 

Colpocoryphe rouaulti

Ordovician - Dariwillian

South of Rennes - Britanny

Found on june 2019

[elcoincoin]

now 2 small asaphidae :

indet asaphidae

Ordovician - Dariwillian

South of Rennes - Britanny

Found on july 2019

[elcoincoin]

2 more eodalmanitina from the same site and 2 neseuretus tristani, usually the most common ones but not in the piles we have been processing over the summer

 

regards

[elcoincoin]

During summer we also took a week end off to go for an echinoid hunt in normandy.

Those are some of my nicest finds :

First day we headed to Saint Jouin de Bruneval, the cliffs here are mostly cenomanian

 

The most common echinoid : Crassiholaster subglobosus

[Bobby Rico]

3 minutes ago, elcoincoin said:

echinoid hunt

They are beauties .  

[elcoincoin]

A few echies from near Fécamp (Normandy cretaceous still) from the same week end.

First is Echinocorys Gravesii, the others Micraster decipiens

[fifbrindacier]

On 11/09/2019 at 10:49 PM, elcoincoin said:

Then comes that big fellow. actually beside sawing the block since it was like 1 meter long, i didnt touch it yet and maybe i wont. It did split reallt good.

 

Ectillaenus Giganteus, south of Rennes - France, found in may. Size about 15 cm long.

Wow, the ones i found in that area were a bit smallests.