Tag: trilobites
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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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Ancient ‘Cockroaches of the Sea’ Fossilized While Playing ‘Follow the Leader’
LiveScience has a piece on a new trilobite discovery in Morocco. Morocco is famous for fossils and one particularly notable animal from there is the trilobite. In this case, a whole line of these animals died and were preserved together in line. Behavior is rarely fossilized, but this window into the past, shows collective…
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Feathers and Fur Fly Over Pterosaur Fossil Finding
An artist’s rendering of a short-tailed pterosaur. Scientists say they were covered with fuzzy, fur-like insulating structures over their heads, torsos, limbs and tails. And on their heads and wings, three types of curved, thread-like fibers resembling modern feathers.CreditCreditYuan Zhang/Nature Ecology & Evolution The NY Times Trilobites blog has a story about a new pterosaur…
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Reminder: September General Meeting on Friday, September 8th, 2017 – “Calymene blumenbachii and the Discovery of Trilobites”
The speaker at our September 8, 2017 meeting will be Dr. Don Mikulic, Senior Paleontologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey. The title of his program is “Calymene blumenbachii and the Discovery of Trilobites”. The program is based on a chapter in “Fantastic Fossils – 300 years of worldwide research on trilobites”, New York State…
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Preserved Trilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York State
Sciency Thoughts has a story about pyritized trilobite eggs. The eggs were found associated with 2 Triarthrus eatoni trilobites from the Ordovician Whetstone Gulf Formation (Lorraine Group), in upstate New York. The eggs were found in the cephala (head) of the trilobites, which is similar to the method of reproduction in Horseshoe Crabs. In Horseshoe…
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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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Fossil Friday: Find the Trilobite
Here's a little puzzle… find the trilobite. It's a small enrolled Ditomopyge from the Permian of Kansas.
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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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Travel and Trilobites
Nice article from Scientific American on Travel and Trilobites: …. Still today the Silurian (some 443,7-416 milion years ago) is one of the most enigmatic epochs in the history of earth; marked by glaciations at the beginning, it was at the end of this period that the landmasses, until then barren deserts, became colonized by…
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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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Live Auction Items Coming Up
Fossil Plate Trilobites Bathyurisces Fimbriatus Cambrian, Delta, Utah, starting bid – $5.00 Invertebrate Collection: Trilobites, Ammonites, Basulites, Brachiopods, Gastropods… Starting big: $25.00 Prehistoric horse tooth (complete Pleistocene 1.5 mya, Peace River, Florida. starting bid = $10.00) and jade (translucent good)
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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….
