Tag: pyrite
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450-Million-Year-Old Fossil Arthropod Found Preserved in Fool’s Gold
SciNews has news of a new species of arthropod from the Ordovician Period. Lomankus edgecombei lived some 450 million years ago in what is now New York. This specimen was found at a fossil locality that includes the famous Beecher’s Trilobite Bed. That locality is known for equisite pyrite replacement fossils. The legs of trilobites…
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‘Golden’ fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation
Phys.org has an article about “golden” fossils. Germany’s Posidonia shale, which dates to the early Jurassic, was thought to contain pyritized fossils of sea life. New research by a team at the University of Texas at Austin have found that the golden shine actually comes from phosphate minerals with yellow calcite. Additionally, the chemical composition…
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In Upstate New York, Ancient Arthropods Can Get Turned Into (Fool’s) Gold
Atlas Obscura has a piece about trilobites… golden trilobites. Trilobites are some of the most desirable fossils and highly detailed, pyritized trilobites are especially desirable. “Beecher’s Bed” is a famous trilobite quarry discovered and named for Charles Emerson Beecher, a paleontologist a the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. It is made of…
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Events This Week Jan. 10 – 16, 2011
Fri. 1/14 General Meeting, 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. John Ruskamp will speak on: Trans-Cultural Diffusion in North American Native Rock Writing: This dual topic lecture presents images of a previously unidentified solar “sun dagger” shrine in Eastern Arizona, the native folklore associated with it, and explores the possibility that it…
