Post by Joe Botting on Dec 14, 2006 13:51:51 GMT -5
Hi all,
I was just doing a drawing of one of our bivalved arthropod carapaces for the faunal list, and idly scratched away at a tiny bit of trilobite with a nice bumpy ornament (expecting it to be a common calymenid). Turns out it had spikes on the end. The spikes had spikes on too. It's another species of odontopleurid, and another new find for the inlier, and probably a new species overall. Wibble. This was on a slab that we'd already looked at with a microscope and put away in a drawer. The specimen is a single fragment of a single thoracic rib, and that is quite likely to be all anyone has ever seen of this beast. It's really quite awe-inspiring at times, this hobby...
Joe
I was just doing a drawing of one of our bivalved arthropod carapaces for the faunal list, and idly scratched away at a tiny bit of trilobite with a nice bumpy ornament (expecting it to be a common calymenid). Turns out it had spikes on the end. The spikes had spikes on too. It's another species of odontopleurid, and another new find for the inlier, and probably a new species overall. Wibble. This was on a slab that we'd already looked at with a microscope and put away in a drawer. The specimen is a single fragment of a single thoracic rib, and that is quite likely to be all anyone has ever seen of this beast. It's really quite awe-inspiring at times, this hobby...
Joe