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Description: | An incomplete but fairly well preserved cephalon of a Dalmanites myops trilobite (47mm x 22mm x 8mm). It is dark grey in colour. In places the specimen is covered in a pale brown fine grained limestone matrix. This matrix makes up the limestone slab (103mm x 82mm x 28mm) in which the specimen is located. The specimen has one complete genal spine (26mm) but only part of the other (5mm). There is one prominant eye however a fracture which has broken the specimen has run through where the other eye whould have been located. This fracture has been repeared with an orange coloured glue/resin. Between where the two genal spines are located, there is a large brachiopod shell (29mm x 18mm) which is covered in a lot of matrix. It is not possible to identify this shell due to the amount of matrix covering it. This brachiopod is dark grey in colour. Within the matrix there are small fossils including brachiopods (2mm) and parts of crinoid stems. On the underside of the specimen written in black ink is the words Summer 2001, which is when this specimen would have been collected. There is also the number 6C which indicates that this specimen was collected from Steven Birchs locality 6C (grid ref SO 9370 9200) which is within the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Nodular Member. This is Silurian in age and dates at c425my. This specimen was collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. AR
An incomplete fossil Dalmanites myops trilobite which is approximately 425 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Museums Service | Rights holder: | Dudley Museums Service | Subjects: | Steven Birch Collection Geology | Temporal: | Silurian - Wenlock | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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