mikeymig Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 My girlfriend Paula collects with me from time to time but doesn’t like to dig. She likes to walk around and surface collect and has started to build her own collection. The last time we went collecting together, I was in the stream splitting shale looking for trilobites and she went in the nearby woods with a zip lock bag. In the woods she found a dry ravine that drained out on to the forest floor. She found a bunch of corals and brachiopods lying on the ground and quickly filled her bag. Paula has always wanted to find a trilobite and I told her she’s going to have to dig to find one cuz they aren’t just lying around. On her way back to the stream to get another bag she found this trilobite. I would have been pretty excited to find this guy but Paula was very cool about it and put it in her pocket. When she showed me her bag of goodies I was surprised she found so much stuff. Then she reaches into her pocket and says “Oh yeah I also found this”. I told her that she was lucky to find it and that it has its original color pattern preserved, pretty rare. On the way home it occurred to me that not only did she find her first trilobite Paula is also a Seneca indian and the stream we were at was named for a Seneca indian chief. I thought it was cool but she just called me a nerd. Thanks Mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triops808 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Wow, that's a real nice trilobite! Congratulations to you both, on a great trip fossiling:) Hope the New Year brings you both plenty more: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Wow! Congratulations to Paula on the rare find! I find these spotted trilos to be fascinating. This one is absolutely spectacular. Thanks for showing us. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakebite6769 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Congrats on the cool find, good preservation as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 2"! Where is the color pattern, I can't tell? btw your pics lately are being stretched somehow on my browser, I don't know what's causing it, but it's just your pics, no one else's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 2"! Where is the color pattern, I can't tell? btw your pics lately are being stretched somehow on my browser, I don't know what's causing it, but it's just your pics, no one else's. I don't know what is causing that, but if you click on them, they open, with correct proportions, in a new tab. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 2"! Where is the color pattern, I can't tell? btw your pics lately are being stretched somehow on my browser, I don't know what's causing it, but it's just your pics, no one else's. The black dots are the color pattern. Sorry about the photos maybe I should just upload them instead of copy paste.Mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 ...I should just upload them instead of copy paste. Yes, please "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Thanks... The dots look like bumps to me..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 Hope this is better! Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raistlin Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 That is a really nice trilobite. You take really great photos BTW. What are you using to take them? RobertSoutheast, MO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masonboro37 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 That is exciting for Paula! Thanks for sharing. Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 That's one very remarkable bug. Big congratulations to Paula. Sounds like both of you had a great time. My girlfriend likes to collect the same way and back in May she found an absolutely perfect paleozygopleura (corkscrew shaped, ribbed gastropod) weathered out of the shale at Pompey Center. It was the definately the find of the day. Best wishes to both of you. Happy hunting!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Nice! Congrats Paula!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olenoides Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 There was a paper published this year about potential color patterns in trilobites from the Moscow Formation of NY. Here's a link to an article about them. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130327-trilobite-spots-marine-paleontology-science/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 wow- what a bug! www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Thanks people! Paula won't admit but she's pretty proud. I put it in my display case on a base with all my enrolled Eldredgeops and she got all lippy and said " hey that's mine and I want it on my bookcase". Mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn835 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 LOL MIne is the same way. She doesn't really collect, but when she found a vert at Cape May, she quickly hid it and wont let me put it with other stuff. With rocks in my head, and fossils in my heart.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikecable Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Sweet bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyT. Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Mikey & Paula, just Wowwowowowowowooowowowo! I never knew such a fantastic type of trilo existed. Love the story about how she found it, too. Reminds me of fossiling w/my guy (who mostly just came along to be companionable), when he steps out of the car and looks down at the ditch where he pulls a hefty cephalopod out of the weeds, sparkling with quart crystals. This is while I'm climbing precariously along the cut to the cephalopod layer, ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Seneca20 Posted February 4, 2014 New Members Share Posted February 4, 2014 Thanks everyone! I didn't know that it was a good one or not. Mike has some real nice trilobites that look like they are alive and mine looks like a piece of crumpled up paper. I think Mike was more excited then I was. We collect at such pretty places I don't care if I don't find anything. But after finding this trilobite I now want to find one that looks alive or a baby trilobite. Paula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Congrats to you Paula! That is one heck of a great find for your first trilo! My first trilo was like half of the head ha ha. Happy hunting! -CQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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