izak_ Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Just got back from a trip to Forbes, NSW a couple of days ago. Found some great stuff! But after that we checked out a site mentioned very vaguely in an old paper and were pretty successful! The site which is located near Parkes, NSW has Late Ordovician trilobites and other fauna. From what I can gather most of the species from the site are undescribed(?). Anyway, here are a few of my finds, maybe @piranha could help out with some ID's. Oh and I haven't finished prepping these specimens, but I'll post them when I have, although it may be a while since my airscribe has decided to break Crinoid Undescribed calymenid Unidentified trilobite cephalon Another no ID trilobite cephalon. Halfway through prep... continued... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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izak_ Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 Found a few of these, but most were missing their cephalons. Maybe I'll find a complete one when I get my new airscribe... Halfway through prep (note that they aren't scratches on the trilobite, just stubborn matrix ): Two of what I assume are the same species of trilobite And a Parkesolithus gradyi Expect some pics of the prepped specimens eventually! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 51 minutes ago, Foozil said: Expect some pics of the prepped specimens eventually! Looks like You did good. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 Update: Apparently some of these faunas are unreported from the Late Ordovician of NSW, i.e no Calymenids or this crinoid, so may have found a good spot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Looks promising! 1 "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Looking forward to seeing those bugs prepped! 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 figures from: Edgecombe, G.D., & Webby, B.D. 2007 Ordovician trilobites with eastern Gondwanan affinities from central-west New South Wales and Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 34:255-281 PDF LINK 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, piranha said: figures from: Edgecombe, G.D., & Webby, B.D. 2007 Ordovician trilobites with eastern Gondwanan affinities from central-west New South Wales and Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 34:255-281 PDF LINK Thanks Piranha, wasn't aware of this paper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Parkesolithus gradyi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 figure from: Campbell, K.S.W. & Durham, G.J. 1971 Trilobites: An Australian Trinucleid. Nature, 229:595 Campbell, K.S.W., & Durham, G.J. 1970 A New Trinucleid Trilobite from the Upper Ordovician of New South Wales. Palaeontology, 13(4):573-580 PDF LINK 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks again @piranha. Thats actually the paper that helped me find the site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan 1000 Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Nice stuff Izak! Looks like you have found a good spot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 Update no. 2: Looks like the calymenid could be a new species! Just waiting to hear what the best NSW trilobite guys have to say... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Congratulations on finding a new and promising trilobite-hunting location!!! Good luck with the prep and identifications! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Interesting! Good work. There is a possible trilobite site not far from me that might bear new species but I'm more constrained than you are at investigating it. They've pretty much blocked off Joe Public's access to all the back country around here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 13 hours ago, Foozil said: And a Parkesolithus gradyi that one is going to be a beauty! Everything is generated through your own will power ~ Ray Bradbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 The long preglabellar field of this calymenid shares similarities with: Sarrabesia or Neseuretus Sarrabesia figs. A-B and text from: Edgecombe, G.D., Banks, M.R., & Banks, D. 1999 Upper Ordovician Phacopida (Trilobita) from Tasmania. Alcheringa, 23(4):235-257 PDF LINK "Appropriate comparisons are with Neseuretus Hicks, 1873, Neseuretinus Dean, 1967, and Sarrabesia Hammann & Leone, 1997... ...Accordingly, we interpret the species as closely allied to Sarrabesia but retaining some primitive cephalic characters shared with Neseuretus. Its formal description requires additional material." Neseuretus fig. 57 from: Hammann, W. 1983 Calymenacea (Trilobita) aus dem Ordovizium von Spanien ihre Biostratigraphie, Ökologie und Systematik. [Calymenacea (Trilobita) from the Ordovician of Spain their biostratigraphy, ecology and systematics.] Abh. Der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 542:1-177 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks again @piranha Heres one of the brachiopod species there: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 Remopleurides exallos Partial cephalon Thorax and pygidium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 Went back for round 2 a few weeks ago! A pretty poor but pretty big Eokosovopeltis currajongensis pygidium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 A couple complete Eastonillaenus goonumblaensis 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Extremely nice finds,Izak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Gorgeous finds Izak! Wow! 1 Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 7 hours ago, doushantuo said: Extremely nice finds,Izak. 58 minutes ago, Max-fossils said: Gorgeous finds Izak! Wow! Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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