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Today I was fortunate enough to get back out on another fossilhunt. Even though I went to bed later then I wanted about 3:50 am I woke up and tossed and turned for the next hour. I was very excited to get back to the site after last week's fun. So I ended up leaving a bit earlier than originally planned. I stopped to get myself a breakfast sandwich and when I got back in my car, a feeling washed over me that today I was going to be lucky. Of course I feel that way everytime I go hunting, but it doesn't always happen. The ride was dark and foggy. This time of year you really have to pay attention to the deer population. We have many in New York and it is now hunting season. So they are very active between sunset till sunrise. Surprisingly I didn't see many on the way there, but just missed a small one that ran in front of my car on the way home. I arrived at 7 am as it was just starting to get light. But between the fog and clouds it was rather gloomy. It started sprinkling but I read the weather report so I was prepared. I was glad to find the area just the way I left it last week. I wanted to work the same spot, but just go deeper. Things started off kind of slow. With the exception of a decent Dipluera cephalon all I was finding was many of the common smaller Brachiopods and Bivalves. But then it happened! I was lifting up a rather big slab, when I flipped over had half of the negative from a Dipluera. The positive was under a bunch of muddy water due to the rain, so I couldn't even see it. It took me awhile to get the water to drain so I could see what I was working with. Once the water was gone I see the back end of the trilo. I could tell that the front half was still attached to the piece I pulled of the top. Even though it was broke I was excited. I figured if I could get both halves, the trilo could be glued back and prepped. Unfortunately when I tried to remove the bottom portion the trilo broke into a bunch of pieces. I tried to not let this ruin my day. I have done this long enough to know that when you find a decent Dipluera there are usually others close by. So I continued working on removing slabs. I don't think more the 10 -15 minutes went by maybe 3 or 4 pieces of rock, when it happened again! I lifted up a slab, flipped it over and there was a complete negative of a Dipluera! I looked down and in the back corner of where I was digging was the positive! My heart was pounding! Now if I could just remove it without it falling apart like the first one. And I needed to move quick before the rainwater started to accumulate to much around the trilo. After a few minutes of careful extraction: success! I came out unbroken! This really meant alot to me today. Most of those who know me know that I have found alot of these over the years. I have either sold, traded, or given away as gifts all that I found. So it is nice to be able to have one in my collection again. After I pulled out this Dipluera there was also a Greenops laying in the same general area. After removing that I was pretty satisfied and only stayed a little while longer. I was tired and the rain was starting to really soak through my clothes. So all in all I had a pretty good day. Here are some pics. 1st- what it looked like when I arrived. 2nd- my truck "The Fossil Mobile" 3rd- Dipluera in-situ

This trilobite was gifted to me by a family member who was in Morocco. I have doubts about its authenticity

This morning, I decided to split some of my scrap material from the Quincy site where I have posted about a few times. At first, this piece split badly, but I decided to split it further, and a small piece of limonite stained shell revealed itself. I split it further, and this beauty popped out. Right now it doesn’t look very nice, but I was able to recover most of the shell. After some prep (which I am fully unable to do and would probably cost way more than the specimen), it would look a bit better than it does now. The anterior glabellar lobe is somewhat crushed, revealing what may be the outline of the hypostome. My hopes are certainly raised for what can turn up in this site in future.

Hello everyone. I'm making this post to show my recent trip to Central New York and what I found. I would also really appreciate advice on better techniques and further identification. I started the trip by entering Tully, NY. I had heard there was a good site behind the hotel, right next to the exit. Unfortunately, the large exposed rock face was now marked with do not trespass signs. I decided to drive around the old quarry there and eventually found a random pile of rocks that I assumed were from the quarry to dig through. In there, I found the first two fossils. Two pieces of Crinoid stem and a nice little Brachiopod. (Photo 1). Then, after doing a bit of research, I decided to head to Madison County. In Madison, I found an old quarry on Brigs Road. The quarry was divided into two tiers, and the top seemed to have a lot more fossils. After sifting through some of the rubble, I found a Trilobite section (photo 2) and a Trilobite imprint (photo 3). At the base, I also found several Brachiopods (photos 4–6). Most interesting, though, I believe is (photo 7), which appears to be a Crinoid feather segment, which are considerably harder to find than their stems. Finally I went down a ways to the Deep Springs Road quarry. This one had three tiers but I decided to focus on the top one. I dug in two areas. one halfway up the top tier and the other at the very top. Both proved very productive in trilobite sections. From this site, I recovered (photos 8-10). Unfortunately, no complete Trilobite was found. Interestingly, photo 8 had very fine preservation of the eye and intricate detail can be made out. Overall, this was a great trip and I found some interesting stuff, especially since I had rather limited tools, using only a hammer. The main take aways are the high abundance of Trilobites in deep springs and the dense Brachiopod death layers in Brigs. I'll have to come back with better equipment to further investigate. Photo 1: Photo 2: Photo 3: Photo 4: Photo 5: Photo 6: Photo 7: Photo 8: Photo 9: Photo 10: Briggs Road:

How big would this isotelus had been? From tip of Cephalon to end of damaged genal spine is 13.9 cm.. Super stoked to have found it! Now I am not sure what to do with it, hahaha

I forgot were I found this fossil but it is from the US norther half. I think it’s a trilobite but It could be just some strange markings on a rock.

This trilobite was sold to me as an elrathia kingii. Which I knew when purchasing it, it was not. Can anyone ID this?

Was trying to prep. some trilobites and wasn't sure what a few things where. Still trying to learn more of these things. The first 1 looked bit different from other things seeing and wasn't sure if was maybe a upside down head piece or something else? The 2nd one I found a trilobite but it was upside down. So I tried to prep. from the other side and hit what wasn't sure of. There is a head piece of a trilobite to the side but wasn't sure the rest of it was? #1 #1 #2 upside down trilobite #2 what hit on other side of trilobite (was around the top of where trilobite should be) #2 (different angle)

Hi. Friend of my got this trilobite, but I know these kind are often faked. I have never looked for this type of triobites so I was hoping someone would have more experience with these. Any opinions? Thank you.

This was in a box that was labeled trilobites from what was labeled Providence Mt in California. But to me does not look like a trilobite.

So how long did it take you to find your first full, or mostly full trilobite?

I'm a very new fossil hunter. I found this lovely little trilobite head (at least, I'm 99% sure it's a trilobite!) in the area around Arkona, Ontario (Canada) this past summer, which to my knowledge is middle devonian. Problem is, it's only the head. I'm not sure if that's very helpful (I'm not even familiar with where to look for resources on IDing trilobites) so I figured I'd ask here. If not to genus, I'd love to get it narrowed down as far as possible, and I'd also love to know what features support your ID! Trilobites are among my favourite extinct animals, I'd love to be able to ID the ones I find in future. Links to good resources on trilo ID are also appreciated, especially ones focusing on trilos found insouthern Ontario. Scale is a centimeter ruler with millimeters. A view from above: And from the side: Sorry if the formatting is weird, I'm posting from mobile. Let me know if any more information is needed, and I'll do my best to provide it. Thanks, all!

Went out today and found what I believe to be a very small headless isotelus. Also found some flexis, and various other things. Here are a few photos from today.

Ok, grandson found some cool stuff here in eastern North Carolina. I'm pretty sure the tooth is an extinct giant white shark. The other a trilobite.

I had arrived to do some looking around and a truck pulls up and a guy hops out. He starts getting his gear together and I start up a conversation. While talking he tells me that he had yet to find his first full trilobite. So I tell him that they are there to be found, and start telling him what to look for, and we both start searching. I ended up finding the first one. I left it and called him over for him to see it in situ. After inspecting it we were back to looking some more. We find various other fossils, I believe he even found a crinoid calyx, and a small isotelus pygidium. Anyhow a bit later Ihear him say, look at that, and look over and ask if he found one. He had indeed! He had found his first roller! I was so stoked for him! After congratulating him we hunted a bit longer then took off for a spot that he wanted to show me. Not long after arriving at the new location I found a dandy flexi roller, and a bit later an isotelus in matrix, not sure exactly how much is in there but plan on working on it a bit with the dremel at some point to find out. I am hoping that he will add his finds to this thread once he gets home and gets them cleaned up. I had fun, and it was nice to hunt with someone that has the interest that he does, and we plan on doing more hunting together in the future. The highlight of the day was seeing him find his first trilobite! A few photos from today ... I kept a cool hashplate with multiple types of brachiopods, a horn coral, and a bryozoan colony or coral?? I also found two rusophycus together but forgot it in the vehicle....may take photos of them later.