1nickeless1 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Found this 5" x 8" plate in a road cut. It is loaded with coral pieces, brachiopods, gastropods and 25 trilobites one side! I have to do some prep to see if I have anything more than tails and ID what is there, but I am happy to find my first trilos, small as they are at 3/8" each and and in good shape. The pic with the nickle has the 25 but pic is poor. My current knowledge of formations and specimen ID prohibits labeling, please bear with me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 i really like "hash" plates like that. i think that plate is very interesting and would be even more interesting with some dolomite shot on it to clean off all the top layer of fossils. looks like nice detail and preservation on the stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I agree with tracer, prepped that could be one cool plate KOF, Bill. Welcome to the forum, all new members www.ukfossils check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metopocetus Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 That is really interesting. Like tracer said (paraphrasing here), those hash plates look very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickeless1 Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 i really like "hash" plates like that. i think that plate is very interesting and would be even more interesting with some dolomite shot on it to clean off all the top layer of fossils. looks like nice detail and preservation on the stuff. I have a bunch of hash plates. They seem like a gathering that ended rudely and abruptly, where the solitary creatures wandered into mud and said "Oh, snarge". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I have an identical plate ate home, I believe that it is either the decorah (probably) or bachelor formation, trilobite parts are fairly common in them. But then again I am speaking from memory, which is faulty at best..... Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Hey, congratulations and it didn't take you long to find your first series of trilobites! That one looks pretty complete to me... Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Wonderful plate! I have a real soft spot for "hash". "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...
NSRaddict_1 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Nice trilobite piece , always love finding the trilos . Hunting fossils is fun , but discovering is better ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicranurus Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Really interesting & good looking plate. "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living." -Sir David Attenborough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Nice! I love that Ordovician stuff. The large librigena are from an Isotelus. I also noticed a few Isotelus pleurons. The small pygidiums might be calymenids. I also noticed rhychonellid(Orthorynchulla ???) and strophomenid(Rafinesquina ???) brachiopods. The gastropods are Loxoplucus, and the ramose bryozoans are some kind of trepostomate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 1nikeless1.....Nice find..... we call them multi fossil death beds.... or assemblages.... its nice to hve the association of a few species together.... well done... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Probably, not "death beds". They have been winnowed by current Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickeless1 Posted September 5, 2009 Author Share Posted September 5, 2009 Hey, congratulations and it didn't take you long to find your first series of trilobites! That one looks pretty complete to me... Thanks Roz(illa)! I did the 'I found my first trilobite happy dance' for my wife like I said I would! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickeless1 Posted September 5, 2009 Author Share Posted September 5, 2009 Thanks, all! I appreciate your appreciation and am enjoying the forum as much as finding, but one question begs; How does Solius Symbiosis order a cheeseburger, fries and a coke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickeless1 Posted September 5, 2009 Author Share Posted September 5, 2009 Nice! I love that Ordovician stuff. The large librigena are from an Isotelus. I also noticed a few Isotelus pleurons. The small pygidiums might be calymenids. I also noticed rhychonellid(Orthorynchulla ???) and strophomenid(Rafinesquina ???) brachiopods. The gastropods are Loxoplucus, and the ramose bryozoans are some kind of trepostomate. Wow! That gives me much to work with. I am grateful you took the time to ID these for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I love these sort of plates, I found quite a few when I was in IN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh-Man Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Cool plate! I'm still looking for my first whole trilo. They are few and far between in Texas! What is geology? "Rocks for Jocks!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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