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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 20, 2011 20:01:50 GMT -5
Okay here is my first trilobite from this unique biota.... Any ideas on the ID? Part    Counterpart   |
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 21, 2011 6:51:07 GMT -5
Very nice!
There's a problem with trilobites, though... the fauna is basically undescribed! There are dozens of new species in the fezouata, but complete ones for most species are relatively rare and expensive. There are people starting to work on it, though, notably Muriel Vidal and (now and then) Richard Fortey. This is one that I'm pretty sure doesn't yet have a name, although in Peter Van Roy's thesis there is something very like it labelled as a cheirurine phacopid (which is certainly what it appears to be). You'll probably find if you prep it a bit that the pleurae are elongated into long spines... I can see the base of one or two, I think.
No soft tissue in this one, but a lovely little specimen.
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 21, 2011 8:35:42 GMT -5
Thanks Joe for your comments!
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