Category: Trilobite Tuesday
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Trilobites.info: April 2016 Trilobite of the Month
Over at Trilobites.info, the Trilobite of the Month for April 2016 is Stummiana arkonensis. It’s a Middle Devonian trilobite from the Widder Formation, Hamilton Group of Arkona, Ontario, Canada. Check it out on the trilobites.info website. The trilobites.info website is invaluable for everything trilobite. Check it out today! The Trilobite of the Month for the…
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AMNH Trilobite of the Week – Paradoxides davidis trapezopyge
The AMNH’s Trilobite of the Week is Paradoxides davidis trapezopyge. Paradoxides davidis trapezopyge Bergström & Levi-Setti 1978Middle CambrianManuels River FormationManuels River, Newfoundland, Canada22 cm
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American Museum of Natural History: Trilobite of the Week 01/12/2016
The trilobite of the week from the American Museum of Natural History is Nanolichas parvus. It’s from the Upper Fezouata Formation of the lower Ordovician of Morocco. This guy was found in the Dra Valley, new Zagora, Morrocco. It measures about 6 cm.
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Trilobite Fakes
Roy Plotnick post on the ESCONI Facebook Page to let us know about a new Facebook page about Trilobite Fakes and Restorations.
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New Paper on Trilobites of Utah
Over at the Yahoo ESCONI discussion group, Don Baumgartner posted: “… Please find this at the below web site for a free download. This was posted a while back off the Trilobite Jam Facebook page. http://kuscholarwor ks.ku.edu/ dspace/handle/ 1808/8543…”
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Obituary for Harry Whittington
Via Telegraph: Professor Harry Whittington, who died on June 20 aged 94, was the former Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge and the world’s leading authority on fossil trilobites; in later life he led painstaking research which revealed a “Cambrian explosion” and raised disturbing questions about the processes of evolution….
