Post by Joe Botting on May 3, 2010 11:18:19 GMT -5
Had a weekend in Wales, and have found a few more goodes. We only went to a couple of our regular sites, plus a few hours investigating a Silurian roadcut that Chris found, but here are a few of the latest things of interest...
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A new trilobite - new to the inlier, and quite possible just plain new. Only one specimen, but given we've been going to the site for ten years, it's obviously pretty rare. We've taken a latex and the tubercles are actually really pronounced spines; note also that the free cheeks are tiny. We're looking at Solenopleuridae, which would probably make it the youngest known... but the jury's out for now.
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570179063/
A really nice trinucleid, but it's not yet clear which one it is. You never know, it might be a new one...
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570816484/sizes/o/
I know you've been missing the palaeoscolecids, so here's a giant one, 3 mm wide. You can even make out the plates, which have an irregular, semi-interlocking arrangement. Probably a big version of one we've seen before, but we need SEM to make sure.
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570819548/sizes/l/
A nice little conulariid - you rarely get these intact. Sorry the photo's a bit blurry!
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570819990/
Some nice evidence of predation - damage and repair in a little oboloid brachiopod. It's not often we see direct evidence like this... the question is, what was the nibbler?
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570812204/
And finally... the star of the trip. Chris picked up a loose block from the stream below one of our outcrops, split it, and spotted a mangled conulariid in it. When we got it home, we found tow of these... plus a sponge and a palaeoscolecid. This thing is a solute, by the way - a group of carpoids barely known from Wales (if at all).
Not bad for two days' work, and there's plenty more too. Several new sponges, for example, and some cornutes (also probably new).
Toodle-pip,
Joe
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570176783/
A new trilobite - new to the inlier, and quite possible just plain new. Only one specimen, but given we've been going to the site for ten years, it's obviously pretty rare. We've taken a latex and the tubercles are actually really pronounced spines; note also that the free cheeks are tiny. We're looking at Solenopleuridae, which would probably make it the youngest known... but the jury's out for now.
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570179063/
A really nice trinucleid, but it's not yet clear which one it is. You never know, it might be a new one...
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570816484/sizes/o/
I know you've been missing the palaeoscolecids, so here's a giant one, 3 mm wide. You can even make out the plates, which have an irregular, semi-interlocking arrangement. Probably a big version of one we've seen before, but we need SEM to make sure.
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570819548/sizes/l/
A nice little conulariid - you rarely get these intact. Sorry the photo's a bit blurry!
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570819990/
Some nice evidence of predation - damage and repair in a little oboloid brachiopod. It's not often we see direct evidence like this... the question is, what was the nibbler?
www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4570812204/
And finally... the star of the trip. Chris picked up a loose block from the stream below one of our outcrops, split it, and spotted a mangled conulariid in it. When we got it home, we found tow of these... plus a sponge and a palaeoscolecid. This thing is a solute, by the way - a group of carpoids barely known from Wales (if at all).
Not bad for two days' work, and there's plenty more too. Several new sponges, for example, and some cornutes (also probably new).
Toodle-pip,
Joe
