Trilobites
Trilobite Beetle Found in East Asia
This is Super Fun! https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/161028-trilobite-beetle-singapore-vin?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20171226video-resurfbeetles&utm_campaign=Content&sf175995662=1 Copy and paste the link to National Geographic and be AMAZED! No they are not related to the ocean crawling fossil trilobites, but were named after them!
Common Trilobites of Minnesota
From the free PDF: A Guide to Fossil Collecting in Minnesota. http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Guide-to-Fossil-Collecting-in-Minnesota.pdf
Family Fun Fossil Hunt – River Roots Skills School
This tour was organized through the Eagle Bluff Environmental Center’s River Roots Skills School (http://www.riverrootsschool.org/) as part of their ecotourism initiative. We got together on August 8th, 2015. People came early and stayed late. 🙂 The class was scheduled for 1-5 p.m. and the last people left around 7 p.m. It was a WONDERFUL class! … Continue reading
Trilobite Parts & Species Refresher
Caleb Scheer (now passed) labeled two photos of plates he had found with lots of trilobite parts in them. I know that I need a refresher 🙂 and I thought I would share these with you also. And this one with 13 different trilobites: I hope these help you as much as they have me! … Continue reading
Trilobite Names Abbreviations
This was shared with me by Piranha, the undisputed expert on TFF for trilobites… “The letters cf. are an abbreviation for the Latin word: confer = compare in English. When cf. follows the genus in the example: Dolichoharpes cf. reticulata, it means the trilobite is most like the species D. reticulata. Typically cf. gets applied in … Continue reading
Trilobite Faunal Lists for Southeast Minnesota
NOTE: These trilobite faunal lists were compiled by Caleb Scheer (now deceased) and are on his Midwestpaleo.com website, here: http://www.midwestpaleo.com/Fauna/Fauna.htm Since Caleb has passed, I do not know how long the site will be up. He was the foremost expert here on trilobites. His passing is a tragic loss to the fossil community. Maquoketa Shale … Continue reading
Huge Trilobite EYE!
When I found this fossil, I knew it looked rather “trilobitish” given the color the the shell. But I just couldn’t figure which part of a trilobite it could be. It just didn’t look like a cephalon (head). Here it is for scale: Well, I posted it on thefossilforum.com’s Fossil ID forum and it turned … Continue reading
Andreya’s Big Hunt!
I am going to start this from the end, and then you will know why I used this title. This was a whirlwind (Kids get bored quickly!) 3 hour 5 site hunt! Six year old Andreya’s first fossil hunt of the year, and within three minutes she says, “Bev, Bev, I found a weird one!” … Continue reading
