Showing posts with label trilobite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trilobite. Show all posts
Saturday 27 April 2024

THE DUDLEY BUG: ROLLED TRILOBITE

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A lovely rolled trilobite, Calymene blumenbachii ,  from outcrops in the UK. This wee beauty is in the collections of the deeply awesome The...
Sunday 31 December 2023

HOLLARDOPS: LE MAÎTRE

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Hollardops sp.  Devonian Trilobite Hollardops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle D...
Wednesday 17 August 2022

BUENELLUS HIGGINSI FROM GREENLAND

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An exceptional example of the Lower Cambrian trilobite Buenellus higginsi from the Sirius Passet Biota, Buen Formation which borders the Ar...
Wednesday 27 July 2022

LYSAKER MEMBER TRILOBITE

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Niobe schmidti (Balashova, 1976) This gorgeous trilobite is an exceptionally well-preserved Niobe schmidti  (Balashova, 1976) from middle Or...
Saturday 4 June 2022

ANCIENT LIFE IN THE EAST KOOTENAYS: ORYGMASPIS SPINULA

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Orygmaspis  (Parabolinoides)  spinula This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) spinula  (Westrop, 1986) an Upper Cambrian trilob...
Wednesday 25 May 2022

ANCIENT FOSSIL TRACKWAYS

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Trilobite and Sea Scorpion Fossil Trackways This is a very interesting block with wee trace fossil trackways from our Mississippian seas som...
Monday 4 April 2022

TRACKING THROUGH THE CAMBRIAN

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Pterocephalia norfordi , McKay Group A lovely Pterocephalia norfordi  trilobite from Upper Cambrian, Furongian strata of the McKay Group, Ea...
Sunday 30 January 2022

LOWER CAMBRIAN EAGER FORMATION

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This specimen of a mature olenellid trilobite, Wanneria dunnae , is from the Lower Cambrian Eager Formation of British Columbia.  He is from...
Thursday 27 January 2022

NIOBE SCHMIDTI OF NORWAY

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Niobe schmidti (Balashova, 1976) This gorgeous trilobite is an exceptionally well-preserved Niobe schmidti  (Balashova, 1976) from middle Or...
Saturday 17 July 2021

CRUZIANA TRILOBITE AND ANCIENT FOSSIL TRACKWAYS

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Trilobite and Sea Scorpion Fossil Trackways This is a very interesting block with wee trace fossil trackways from our Mississippian seas som...
Friday 16 July 2021

TRILOBITES: DARLINGS OF THE FOSSIL RECORD

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Trilobites are the darlings of most fossil collectors. These diverse beauties are an extinct group of marine arthropods that first appeared ...
Tuesday 22 June 2021

MEET ACICULOLENUS ASKEWI: A NEW UPPER CAMBRIAN TRILOBITE

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A new species of trilobite from the upper Cambrian McKay Group was introduced in March of 2020: Aciculolenus askewi .  The species is named ...
Monday 21 June 2021

GUT TRILOBITE: TAGMOSIS IN AGLASPIDID ARTHROPODS

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Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) contracta with gut structure This specimen lovely chocolate brown trilobite specimen is  Orygmaspis  (Paraboli...
Tuesday 13 April 2021

PTEROCEPHALIA FROM THE MCKAY GROUP

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A lovely Pterocephalia trilobite from Upper Cambrian, Furongian strata of the McKay Group, Kootenay Rockies.  The McKay Group has been explo...
Friday 31 July 2020

THE DUDLEY BUG

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Calymene blumenbachii , Theresa Paul Spink Dunn A lovely example of the trilobite  Calymene blumenbachii  from outcrops in the UK. This wee ...
Friday 26 July 2019

HYPODICRANOTUS STRIATULUS OF ONTARIO

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Hypodicranotus striatulus Take a gander at this unusual trilobite, Hypodicranotus striatulus  (Walcott, 1875), with his gloriously bulbo...
Friday 19 April 2019

FRENCHMAN MOUNTAIN TRILOBITE: BRISTOLIA INSOLENS

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Bristolia insolens A stunning Cambrian trilobite, Bristolia insolens , from Frenchman Mountain near Las Vegas, Nevada. The mountain pr...
Wednesday 20 January 2010

WANNERIA DUNNAE

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Wanneria dunnae is an impressive trilobite from British Columbia's Eager Formation, and one of the more striking specimens found at the ...
Sunday 15 March 2009

THE CAMBRIAN: 570 MILLION YEARS AGO

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The Cambrian was a time of expansion for the Earths more complex animal forms. Molluscs and arthropods or their friends with hard shells a...