Pennsylvania garage hunting... St Clair and a bonus

[RandyB]

I saw a post on facebook that someone was looking to get rid of some fossils they had collected locally so I arranged to meet up this afternoon.  

 

Most of what was being offered were carboniferous fossil ferns from St Clair and they had some beautiful examples from the site that has been closed to collecting for several years now.

 

 

[RandyB]

 

 

 

[RandyB]

They also offered me a large 15" x 15" trilobite hash plate supposedly collected at a nearby dam.

Detail:

 

[piranha]

The trilobite hash plate was not collected from a nearby dam in St. Clair, Pennsylvania.

 

Pseudogygites latimarginatus is a prolific Ordovician species from Ontario, Canada.

 

It looks like a very nice example for your collection!

 

Ludvigsen, R. 1979
The Ordovician Trilobite Pseudogygites Kobayashi in Eastern and Arctic North America.
Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contributions, 120:1-41  PDF LINK

[RandyB]

2 hours ago, piranha said:

The trilobite hash plate was not collected from a nearby dam in St. Clair, Pennsylvania.

 

Pseudogygites latimarginatus is a prolific Ordovician species from Ontario, Canada.

 

It looks like a very nice example for your collection!

 

Ludvigsen, R. 1979
The Ordovician Trilobite Pseudogygites Kobayashi in Eastern and Arctic North America.
Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contributions, 120:1-41  PDF LINK

Thanks Piranha, it didn't look like anything I have seen in the region which is why I said "supposedly"

I do appreciate the ID, era and region immensely.  There is an area to collect Ordovician fossils an hour and a half or so from here. I've only been there once.

Edited March 23 by RandyB

[Tidgy's Dad]

Lovely specimens!

[automech]

Great score!

[Yoda]

Those are really nice St Clair plates 

[bockryan]

Wow, incredible stuff. I am glad we still have a few accessible Llewellyn Formation localities but St. Clair is just ridiculous, very sad to miss out on collecting it and that it isn't available for others to enjoy. Great hash plate as well

[Jeffrey P]

Congrats on some fine acquisitions Randy. Those fern plates certainly make me wish I could return to St. Clair someday. Thanks for sharing them.