No, I'm still on the tarmac, waiting for my season to get off the runway again. Thankfully, I got a package in the mail from my friend. He and I went collecting in Quebec, and I couldn't bring all my finds home on the train. I had also nabbed a bunch of specimens from him as well. The microwave oven sized box was a little like Christmas in July (because, well, it is July). Two finds of mine. The Flexicalymene senaria might turn out okay, but there is some missing shell on the pygidium, so likely a B-grader. The one one right is a Ceraurus pleurexanthemus. It's very small, and mostly buried -- which is good, as it has a higher likelihood of being complete. The visible pygidial spine and eye are a good sign. Speaking of prep, this Cyphaspis from Morocco looks interesting. Challenge accepted. This is a real stellar plate, and it just needs some finishing prep. What makes it stellar is not (just) the four trilobites, but the truly "stellar" aspect of it if you can pick it out... Two starfish! And my first two in the collection. My prize find from Temiskaming returns home. My friend says it is virtually unpreppable, but I'm going to give it a go since a near complete Ekwanoscutellum is extremely rare, and likely of scientific significance. Sadly, a large area is exfoliated and in the negative, and there is really no way of guaranteeing it will go back together or just end up destroyed in the process given the matrix. But I can still prep the rest... and I have already put in 14 hours. Once I'm done, it deserves its own blog post, hopefully in the coming days.
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