I went to a fossil collecting site I hadn't been to in 48 years. The last time I was here was in 1977, when I was 19, with a geology field trip. We were on our way to the Grand Canyon. This is the cephalon, the head part, of one of the earliest trilobites. The rock was laid down in a shallow sea 550 million years ago. Today, the Latham Shale Formation is found in the Marble Mountains on old Route 66 in California.

#Fossil #Trilobite #Travel #Roadtrip #Paleontology

I went to a fossil collecting site I hadn't been to in 48 years. The last time I was here was in 1977, when I was 19, with a geology field trip. We were on our way to the Grand Canyon. This is the cephalon, the head part, of one of the earliest trilobites. The rock was laid down in a shallow sea 550 million years ago. Today, the Latham Shale Formation is found in the Marble Mountains on old Route 66 in California.

#Fossil #Trilobite #Travel #Roadtrip #Paleontology

Original study:

A. Fernández-Fernández et al., Significance of #fossils in #Roman times: the first #trilobite find in an early Empire context, Archaeol Anthropol Sci 17, 166 (2025). 🔓

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02266-8

Original study:

A. Fernández-Fernández et al., Significance of #fossils in #Roman times: the first #trilobite find in an early Empire context, Archaeol Anthropol Sci 17, 166 (2025). 🔓

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02266-8

The ancient #Roman jewelry which turned out ... an even more ancient #trilobite. 😲

https://www.science.org/content/article/trilobite-fossil-became-ancient-roman-bling

Every quilt tells a story.

You'll find the tale behind 'Queer Was Always Here' in my latest post on The Inarticulate Quilter blog -

#Quilt#Quilting#Trilobite#ThanksForReading

https://inarticulatequilter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/trilobita-textilis-pigmentum/

Every quilt tells a story.

You'll find the tale behind 'Queer Was Always Here' in my latest post on The Inarticulate Quilter blog -

#Quilt#Quilting#Trilobite#ThanksForReading

https://inarticulatequilter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/trilobita-textilis-pigmentum/

Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Kielan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16990670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette

#linocut #printmaking #pattern #surfaceDesign #paleontology #sciArt #Cambrian #BurgessShale #trilobite #wiwaxia #Opabinia #InverteFest #invertebrate #fossils #MastoArt