First Hunt of the Year

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I passed by Quincy today, and I had some time to go there for a bit. Nothing spectacular was found (as usual), but I managed to get some better fragments. I hope there’s still a chance for complete material. I was also planning to check out some other localities, but didn’t have time. 
Here are the finds, from the wonderful grey day. The leaves were wet, though, and won’t move until probably summer.

A bit of hash, two thoracic segments of different sizes, and a cephalic brim of a Paradoxides harlani. Pretty compared to the usual unidentifiable fragments.

A very badly eroded ventral cephalon, though you can barely make out the cephalic doublure.

Something unusual to change it up, a brachiopod. Very probably an Acrothele gamagei. Wetted for contrast.

Two okay partial cranidiums of P. harlani. I was lucky to find the second one, as someone else hammered it on the other side, perpendicular to the bedding.

Here’s a nice partial thorax of some small ptychopariid, it’s probably a Skehanos. Wetted for contrast.

Lastly, here’s a partial Paradoxides thorax pushed up against a librigena. Unusual to find them in the cherty rocks, because the rock usually splits through the trilobite instead of along it. Not exactly a great specimen, but it is what it is.

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I forgot to post this. It’s not a fossil, but an interesting piece of history. This fragment of oyster shell from the quarry shows where it once was. 

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 Paradoxides harlani has been reclassified as: Acadoparadoxides 

 

 

Kaesler, R.L. (ed.) 1997
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1, Trilobita, Revised.
Geological Society of America, University of Kansas Press, 530 pp.