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I have a real trilobite fossil…it's plainly awesome ;p
*Sigh* You're luckier than me... I've never been in trilobite country. I've got some cracking ammonites, though.
I like the picture you added of the really spiny trilobite with the massive crescent headshield and the oval tail; I don't think I've seen many like that.
Me neither. The one I had was like the oval shaped body…I think it's the most common type, I'm not sure.
O wow…you may not be an expert but you're absolutely a enthusiastic learner.
You have no idea...
The book I mentioned earlier is a great read and brings these critters to life. Like the author, you start dreaming wistfully that they still lurk somewhere in the deep oceans... which isn't totally impossible, by the way; a species of lobster known only from fossils was discovered alive and well around one of the undersea volcanic formations called 'black smokers'.
Needless to say, I can't trace it on the Web! But I remember it distinctly as a newspaper item; I'll see if I can track it down.
News of discovering extinct animals make me happy, for some strange reason.
I guess I'm just too lazy to track things down?