Fred Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 Hi all, A very good initiative of the forum to bundle all this science based on the fruitful collaboration between professional and citizen scientists! I would like to present my humble contribution to this inspiring showcase. Quite some time ago, I managed to find an awesome association of small trilobites in a small and overgrown outcrop of the emsian Hierges formation in Belgium. I immediately knew this was an uncommon find, but the true significance of the find only became clear when I started collaborating with Allart van Viersen, who was working on a revision of a number of Belgian trilobite fauna's. I donated part and counterpart of the find to the Natural History Museum of Maastricht. In particular the counterpart was vital, because the trilobites were preserved as internal molds, and the fine details needed for the description are only preserved in the counterpart. So a word of advice: don't forget to collect and keep them! After a couple of years in the pipeline, the find was described in 2013 as a new species bearing my name, Acastava? lerougei. A kind gesture of appreciation for which I'm off course very grateful. This was no doubt one of the best, if not the best, finds of my career as a hobby paleontologist, but I do not regret the decision to part with it for a second. The holotype and all 3 paratypes of this trilobite are next to each other on the same rock slab. VAN VIERSEN, A.P., 2013:04:26. Latest Early to early Middle Devonian acastid trilobites from the eastern part of the Dinant Synclinorium, Belgium (Rhenohercynian Zone). Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 44, 1-10. Paleo database, information and community
Manticocerasman Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 Great job Fred, you surly deserve a trilo named after you for all those years you spend studying those little critters. Again a nice example of a collector contributing to the science of Paleontology. -Kevin growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.
Auspex Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 Very exciting, Fred, and it highlights collaboration, without which the full significance might have gone unrecognized. If you wish to record the salient details in the Contributions Gallery <LINK>, we'd be proud to award the icon to your profile "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!
Fred Posted April 20, 2015 Author Posted April 20, 2015 Will do, Auspex! Paleo database, information and community
Jeffrey P Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 That's a very cool looking trilobite and quite an honor to have it named after you. Congratulations.
fossilized6s Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 Brilliant! Congratulations, Fred! ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG
JohnJ Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 Great story with excellent advice, Fred. Congratulations on the find and your collaboration. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ
Raggedy Man Posted April 25, 2015 Posted April 25, 2015 The greatest of rewards come to those who do not seek them. Bravo sir... Best regards, Paul ...I'm back.
jcbshark Posted April 25, 2015 Posted April 25, 2015 How awesome is that!!! Congrats: ) Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!
MB Posted April 25, 2015 Posted April 25, 2015 Excellent Fred, bravo !!! http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/
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