Showing posts with label trilobite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trilobite. Show all posts
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

KING OF THE TRILOBITES: UNEARTHING ISOTELUS REX

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Isotelus rex , the King of Trilobites In the remote limestone flats of northern Manitoba, a remarkable fossil lay undisturbed for nearly hal...
Sunday, 12 January 2025

GENAL SPINES A GO GO

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Cibelella Coronata / Photo: Alexei Molchanov A spectacular creamy toned specimen of the trilobite Cibelella Coronata  striking a very an...
Thursday, 5 December 2024

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...
Thursday, 24 October 2024

BRONZE BEAUTY: EIFELIAN PARALEJURUS

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This bronzed beauty is the Middle Devonian, Eifelian (~395 mya) trilobite, Paralejurus rehamnanus (Alberti, 1970) from outcrops near Issoum...
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...