Georgemckenzie Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Hiya everyone. I recently purchased this trilo. I’m in the UK. Any help would be great. My best guess at the moment for locality is maybe Malvern worcs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Mmm. It doesn't look like Wenlock Limestone, more like the Wenlock Shale, perhaps? The rock looks more Welsh to me. @piranha 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 37 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Mmm. It doesn't look like Wenlock Limestone, more like the Wenlock Shale, perhaps? The rock looks more Welsh to me. @piranha Maybe it is Welsh the seller had no idea all I know is it looks quite like a calymene maybe it’s a Gravicalymene then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Maybe. A close up of the cephalon might help. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 8 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Maybe. A close up of the cephalon might help. It’s on its way here in the post so soon as it arrives I will take more photos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 On 8/20/2021 at 3:18 PM, Tidgy's Dad said: Maybe. A close up of the cephalon might help. Here’s more pics it arrived today any help would be great and maybe it could be cleaned a bit more what would be the best way to do that? @piranha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Well, the rock looks pretty hard to me. I expect air abrasives would be the way to go. I doubt my pin vice, pins and dental picks would do much good. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Just now, Tidgy's Dad said: Well, the rock looks pretty hard to me. I expect air abrasives would be the way to go. I doubt my pin vice, pins and dental picks would do much good. Yeah I tried a pin it didn’t do much would do more harm than good so maybe in the future send it to a preparer as I don’t have a air abrasive, any idea anymore on the species? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 I still think Gravicalymene is possible, but I am often wrong. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 1 minute ago, Tidgy's Dad said: I still think Gravicalymene is possible, but I am often wrong. Thanks for the help I’m leaning a bit more to that as well now always a pain trying to identify any purchases when the seller doesn’t know the locality, would love to find a trilobite myself but there isn’t a lot of places in Scotland to find them other than girvan I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Without locality info or a detailed view of the glabellar lobes a conservative label will suffice: Calymenidae indet. Shirley, J. 1936 Some British Trilobites of the Family Calymenidae. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 92(14):384-422 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 2 minutes ago, piranha said: Without locality info or a detailed view of the glabellar lobes a conservative label will suffice: Calymenidae indet. Shirley, J. 1936 Some British Trilobites of the Family Calymenidae. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 92(14):384-422 Thanks for the help I can now make a label for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTS Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 On 8/20/2021 at 12:52 PM, Tidgy's Dad said: Mmm. It doesn't look like Wenlock Limestone, more like the Wenlock Shale, perhaps? The rock looks more Welsh to me. @piranha At first glance I thought possibly C. blumenbachii (‘Dudley bug/locust”) but the matrix too dark to be Wenlock Limestone (Much Wenlock Limestone Formation). 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted March 2, 2023 Author Share Posted March 2, 2023 On 2/26/2023 at 5:52 PM, GTS said: At first glance I thought possibly C. blumenbachii (‘Dudley bug/locust”) but the matrix too dark to be Wenlock Limestone (Much Wenlock Limestone Formation). Yeah it’s now been in the collection stored since this post, I just labelled it calymenidae indet from uk, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTS Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 On 3/2/2023 at 3:34 PM, Georgemckenzie said: Yeah it’s now been in the collection stored since this post, I just labelled it calymenidae indet from uk, Okay. I’m pretty sure it’s a Calymene. As for species, the only one from the U.K. that looks like that is C. blumenbachii. Looks very very like my two specimens, one from Wrens Nest and the other from Shropshire. Both Much Wenlock Formation. blumenbachii is only known from this Formation of Wrens Nest, Dudley and Shropshire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgemckenzie Posted March 14, 2023 Author Share Posted March 14, 2023 On 3/3/2023 at 4:10 PM, GTS said: Okay. I’m pretty sure it’s a Calymene. As for species, the only one from the U.K. that looks like that is C. blumenbachii. Looks very very like my two specimens, one from Wrens Nest and the other from Shropshire. Both Much Wenlock Formation. blumenbachii is only known from this Formation of Wrens Nest, Dudley and Shropshire. The only info the seller had unfortunately was it’s from wales so unfortunately looks like I won’t be able to have a proper id for it in the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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