My favorite trilobite

Ohio is the home of the Flexocalamine and the Elrathia Kingi. Both of these particular types may be purchased at any gem and mineral show.
Some as little as 2.00.
Google up "Trilobite mining Ohio" you may find that they are not as rare as you may assume you just are in the wrong area.
Not all trilobites are rare. Some are down right common.
As are the Utah blind species and some of the Flexocalamines.
Oklahoma has some of the most unusual specimens found in America.
I'll see if I can find a link so you can see some of them. They are really amazing and much more valuable than the one I have pictured.

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Finding the Palladin is a rare event. I found my first one while with some friends who showed me the site.
I was sitting on the tail gate of my truck making lunch for the group "sandwiches" when I spotted a stone nearby next to the road.
I picked it up and struck it with another stone. I severely damaged it with the first blow!
The facial plate and spine on one side was completely destroyed.
I learned a valuable lesson that day. If you find a stone that "looks right" do not use crude methods to free them from the matrix.
When most of them are found they are damn near completely covered with stony material, you may see partial exposure of the specimen and rarely more.
All that I have found were encased in the stone with just a small part of the specimen exposed. By the way: collectively, the group of four, found about 50 of the Diotomyge species. Which is one of the other types found at that particular site. One lens yielded about 40 of the smaller types not much larger than a "BB".
There are others who frequent the site and they pretty much pick it clean. You have to be diligent and be there when the time is right.
The Dallas Paleo group visit there from time to time and there is not much to find after they hit the site.
They the Dallas Paleo society are presently attempting to lease a site that has yielded some pretty amazing stuff. That site is in Mineral Wells.
Nuff for now, lot's o stuff found there around the Bridgeport lake area not just Trilobites.
I will try to dig out some of the things that are intresting and post some pics soon, not today. I have to find them first. I have them stored in a storage facility for safe keeping with some of the other things I have accumulated.

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