My Trilobite Collection
Trilobites are more than 300 million years old. They were creatures similar to the horseshoe crabs of today and they once filled our oceans. They are known to us only as fossils. Here you will find some of my favorite trilobites in my collection listed in alphabetical order by genus. I have listed some basic information about each specimen. The background picture you see here is a trilobite wood-burning I created as part of a design on the door to my den. Click here to see the whole woodburned door. Pysanky is the Ukrainian art of dyeing eggs. Click here to see the ostrich egg pysanka I made with a trilobite design. To learn more about trilobites in general, click here to visit an informative website.
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Individual Specimens:
Agnostus interstrictus (White), 1/4
inch long
Middle Cambrian
Wheeler Shale, Millard County, Utah
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Asaphus delphinus, 4.2 and 4.3 inches long
Russia
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Asaphus kotlukovi with spherical cystoid, 4 inches long
Middle Ordovican
Asery level
Volchow plateau near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Asaphus kowalewski, 3.4 inches long not including eyestalks
Middle Ordovican
Volchow plateau near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Asaphus kowalewski, 2.3 and 1.5
inches long not including eyestalks
Middle Ordovican
Volchow plateau near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Asaphus lepidurus, about 2 inches long,
with accompanying brachiopod
Kunda level, Arenigian horizon
Lower Ordovican
Wolchow river
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Calyptaulax calicephalus (two heads visible, one on each side of the matrix) Matrix corner measures 1 3/4" X 1 1/2" Middle Ordovican of the Lake Simcoe Area Middle level of the Verulam Layer of the James Dick Quarry Gamebridge, Ontario, Canada, 2008 |
Cybele panderi, 2.9 inches not including eyestalks
Middle Ordovican
Volchow river region near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Cyphaspis
Devonian (350-395 million years ago) Morocco |
Drotops
Morocco
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Flexicalymene retorsa terminal-molt trilobite with
trepostome bryozoan
Upper Ordovican Cincinnatian series
Dillsboro Formation in Franklin Co., Indiana
Photography and information below courtesy of Jerry
Rush
Click
to read more about this amazing specimen.
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Flexicalymene retorsa, prone one is 1 1/8 inches long
Mt. Orab, Ohio
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Flexicalymene senaria (two specimens, top is 5/8" wide and
bottom is 3/4" wide)
Middle Ordovican of the Lake Simcoe Area
Upper
level of the Verulam Layer of the James Dick Quarry
Gamebridge, Ontario, Canada, 2008
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Hoplolichas furcifer, 2.2 inches long
Ordovican
St. Petersburg, Russia
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Huntonia?
Oklahoma?
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Illaenus ladogensis with cystoid
Ordovican
Russia
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Illaenus tauricornus, 2.5 inches long
Middle Ordovican
Asery Level
Wolhow River near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Metacanthina issoumourensis, outstretched example is 1.4
inches long
Devonian (350-395 million years ago)
AM Limestone in Morocco
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Paradoxides, 3 specimens, each about 10 inches long
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Paralejurus
Devonian (350-395 million years ago)
Alnif, Southeast of Morocco
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Phacops?
My dad gave this one to me when I was young. It is
the catalyst that inspired the collection.
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Remopleurides
Middle Ordovican
Asery level
Wolhow River near St. Petersburg, Russia
photography by J. Kaste, geologist
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