![]() ![]() I'm not certain that this is an Elrathia nor is it an Asaphiscus. #UDIG DELTA UTAH FULL#The bucket full of trilobites (Asaphiscus and Elrathia) in my in-laws garage. He was more than happy to do the swap and Rob used the onsite rock saw to slice the nodule in half revealing the inner crystals. I swapped M2 a ryolite nodule from a nearby location for some shark teeth. ![]() Rob showing off a large and nearly complete A. I might move out to Utah soon so hopefully they won't be in my parent-in-law's garage for to much longer. The rest are in the bucket and shall just have to wait for when I'll return to reclaim them. Unfortunately because I flew out to Utah I was only able to bring home about 5 nice ones from the trip. It was a really good day and despite getting very sunburned I walked away with a large bucket of about 25-30 complete trilobite molts and complete trilobite remains. These trilobites are much harder to find than the ever so common Elrathia kingi and the layer is usually off limits to the public. Within about an hour at the 15 foot layer I pulled out 3 complete A. Towards the end of the day Rob came over and let us split some shale in their 15 foot layer which is famous for containing large Asaphiscus wheeleri. My arms and hands are very sore today but it was worth every second. I'll call him M2 (Matt the second). To my utter shame and disappointment I did not take any pictures of us or the quarry we where digging in because I was having so much fun splitting shale open and going through large slabs of shale as fast as I could. There were large slabs of shale everywhere for the splitting and we where the only ones out there besides another early riser who's name also happened to be Matt. Rob guided us to a spot that had been ripped up the previous day by their onsite bulldozer. ![]() Robin (Rob), the helper on site brought out some very neat finds including an ammonite hash, ammonite, and an Asaphiscus wheeleri with a green tint to it. It was a three hour drive and we came into the quarry at the perfect time. Yesterday morning my cousin Matt picked me up at my in-laws in Alpine, UT at 6:30 am and we travelled down to U-Dig south of Delta to dig for Cambrian trilobites and other marine life. ![]()
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