Since my last post, Covid-19 has become even more serious. I've been keeping busy and getting on top of grading final papers. Of course, I also took the opportunity to get out as much as possible. So this post will be a triple update: finds, a purchase, and a drawing. The first trip was to locate the source of my Amherstburg Fm material. We may have found it, but there were no natural outcrops. The closest was in enormous pits behind barbed wire fences and no trespassing signs -- in other words, a zero-access quarry. So, I fell back on my usual spot in search of more trilo-bits. Some stuff I wasn't looking for. A large gastropod steinkern on the left, and a big brach and bivalve on the right. Yes, large and very cool rostroconchs, but I'm getting a bit sick of them! Left: looks to be part of a Trypaulites sp., and the most complete I've found. Lucky me that it stops right at the natural edge of the rock. Right: bookend pygidia of Mystrocephala and Pseudodechenella. And even more Mystrocephala. Preservation is pretty poor. Lichid pygidia. The one on the left is too damaged to make out. It could be Acanthopyge or Echinolichas. The one on the right is definitely Echinolichas. I lost the positive due to the nature of this material's tendency to explode. Hypostomes! On the left is likely an echinolichine, and the one on the right is a beat up Acanthopyge contusa on account of its shape and pustular ornamentation. Although I was skunked on my attempt to dig through the source of my Devonian material, I at least came home to my first harpetid in the mail. Not the best preservation and prep for this Harpes perradiatus from the Devonian of Morocco, but pretty good given the price I paid. And, as promised, a new drawing. I have about four more queued up, but they will take eons to complete as they are all ridiculously complicated... and my carpal tunnel is dogging me.
Hopefully I'll be able to get out a bit next week once the rains are done, assuming they don't put us on lockdown and home confinement. I do have some trilobite-related stuff to do around the house if that happens. Comments are closed.
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