Trilobite

[fldwlkr]

Down in the creeks today avoiding any hunting areas. No flint to be found but the fossils were everywhere. I walked right up on this trilobite as soon as I hit the gravel.
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[G10+]

That's cool !!!! Non of them around here sad to report but if they were in would collect them to !!! Awesome find

[searchinghawk]

what part of country can ya find a trilobite fossil in creek? its incredible..favorite fossil for sure

[Havenhunter]

Wow! No point but an awesome keeper! Now I have a new "Want One"! On my list of covets. Congrats on a terrific find!

[BabaORiley]

Outstanding fossil there...complete...I have a few partials but nothing like that. Frame worthy there...all the way...killer find!!!

[gregszybala]

Yeah what G10 said "Cool!"

[fldwlkr]

Thanks guys, I was happy to find anything today. It has a nick in the upper right hand corner, but still nice. Goes well with the curled up one I have from the same a watershed. They are typically hard to find, but I walked right up on this one. Guess I was sneaky and caught it sleeping
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[JoshinMO]

Congrat's, very cool!

[Hi-Lo]

Great fossil.

Thanks for sharing.

[Bone2stone]

Calymene Celebra.
These are often confused with Flexicalymene.
Take a close look at the enrolled one and post it too. The Flexi species are most often found rolled up.
Major difference is the lack of the robust cheek plates as is seen on the flexi species.

Congrats on finding one not only near complete but near cleaned/prepped out.
It takes hours to get the ones we find around here clean.
Good ones are hard to come by unless you buy them at shows rock shops or on line.Jess B

[fldwlkr]

Bone2Stone thanks for the information. I let the creeks do the work for me as far as cleaning fossils. I was really out recovering some chrome off a '57 chevy carcass that is down in a ravine when I found the Calymene Celebra. The curled up specimen was found while searching a confluence for chert. I often find the neatest things while out searching for something else.
Good Luck out there, fldwlkr

[SDhunter]

That sure is a nice one!

[pkfrey]

OM Goodness! next to a good artifact, there's nothing better than a complete trilobite!!

[fldwlkr]

SearchingHawk, Ohio is a great place for Ordovician fossils. I don't bother picking up all the horn coral, bryozoa, and brachiopods anymore. We have some creeks that are littered with them.
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[pkfrey]

Fldwlkr, OH MY! Don't let those fossils lay there behind! They're not worth much, but I'd buy a box full of them. Give you some artifact money! To B2S, I think you know your trilobites! Here's one I found at the Swatara Gap Locality. A rare cryptolithus. Some guy, many years ago, was actually cutting small sections from a stick of dynamite and was blowing out the strata looking for trilobites and starfish. He ended up under mining an interstate highway, Route 81! He got caught, arrested, and the state closed the locality down and filled it in with gravel. That was only one of about three places in Pa. where you could find cryptolithus and starfish on the same rock plate.

[fldwlkr]

pkrey, Cool find there. Since it's 2 degrees out, I'll bore you with more rocks. I gave a large collection to our science department when I retired from teaching. I was the art teacher and had more rocks than the new science guy, so I gave him all my fossils. This bunch is some of what has followed me home since retirement. If it is a better specimen I bring it home, otherwise I would have to take a bucket with me. A lot of the bryozoa and crinoids came off the side of the road near Cincinnati. Guess I should get a case and display some of these as they are sitting in a box at the moment.
Keep warm, fldwlkr

[pkfrey]

That's an excellent group of fossils. Horn coral, trilobites ( full and rolled ) , bryozoa, brachiopods, crinoids. Those would make an excellent display in a case. I would intentionally be looking at that site for the best examples. The brachiopods and pelecyopods are eroding out complete without matrix, that's pretty cool! You may have known, but if not, those horn corals are attached to the ancient sea floor by the narrow cone part at the end. Even if you don't display those, no sense leaving them behind when you see them! Thx for sharing!!