Penn Dixie Fossils- Table of Contents
Penn Dixie Fossils - Trilobites


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#1 - Greenops sp., 17 mm across, pygidium and thoraxic segments, collected from lower Windom Shale by Brandon Bialy


#2 - Phacops rana, 25 mm in length, collected from the lower Windom Shale by Brandon Bialy


#3 - Phacops rana, largest cephalon 20 mm across, cephalon and thoraxic segments collected from the lower Windom Shale by Brandon Bialy


#4 - Phacops rana, enrolled specimens collected from the Windom Shale by Dan Cooper


#5 - Phacops rana, enrolled specimen collected from the Windom Shale by Dan Cooper


#6 - Phacops rana, enrolled specimen colelcted from the Windom Shale by Dan Cooper


#7 - Phacops rana, collected from the Windom Shale by Dan Cooper


#8 - Trilobite collected by Jon Luellen and was prepared and cleaned by Gerry Kloc.
Collected during the Dig with the Experts in May 2005 from the Lower Windom Shale.


#9 - Trilobite collected by Jon Luellen and was prepared and cleaned by Gerry Kloc.
Collected during the Dig with the Experts in May 2005 from the Lower Windom Shale.


#10 - Trilobite - Greenops sp., 1.9 cm wide
Collected by Dr. Bob Corretore in 2007 from the pyrite bed of the upper Windom shale.


#11 - Image Id No. 0486, Caption:
Dipleura Sp. 6.3 cm across collected by Jake Skabelund from the lower Windom Shale in 2007.


#12 - Jesse Martin’s Phacops, prepared by Gerry Kloc


#13 - Dipleura, Sp. 3.4 cm wide collected by Chris Cuviello from the lower Windom shale in 2007


#14 - Jesse Martin’s Phacops, prepared by Gerry Kloc


#15 - Phacops, Sp. Largest is 4.0 cm long collected by Jesse Martin from the lower Windom shale in 2006


#16 - These six complete Phacops trilobites were collected by Jake Skabelund, HNHS member from Logan, Utah,
during the May 19, 2007 Dig with the Experts from the Lower Windom Shale at Penn Dixie. 
There are also four blastoid calices near the top of this slab.


#17 - Pygidium (tail), 3.2 cm wide, of a trilobite Dipleura sp. collected by Jessie Wittmeyer, Collins, NY,
from the Lower Windom Shale on his Erie 2 BOCES, Ormsby Ctr. field trip to Penn Dixie on October 11, 2007. 
Jessie donated the pygidium to the Penn Dixie Site.


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Trilobite, 3.7 cm long, collected by Chris Cuviello from the lower Windom shale May 2010 (IMG_1495)
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Trilobite, 2.8 cm long, collected by a third grader from Clinton Elementary from the lower Windom shale May 2010.
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Dechenella trilobite, partial, 1.8 cm long, found by George Grossenbaugh in the lower Windom, May of 2011.
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Enrolled trilobite, found by Don Bissett in the lower Windom, May 2011.
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Phacops, trilobite, 1.8 cm long found by Don Bissett in the lower Windom, May 2011.
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Trilobite, 3.4 cm long, found by Dan Cooper in the lower windom in 2011.
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Clustered trilobites, found at Penn Dixie by Matt Phillips of Martinsville Virginia.
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Cluster of Phacops trilobites discovered by Bill Bowen of Charlestown, Indianna at Penn Dixie
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Cluster of Phacops trilobites discovered at Penn Dixie by Chris Cottom
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Phacops found at Penn Dixie by Karen Tower of Newfane, NY
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Phacops found at Penn Dixie by Don Bissett from Cincinatti, Ohio
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Phacops found at Penn Dixie by Don Bissett from Cincinatti, Ohio
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#45 Phacops group, discovered by Matt Philipps in the Windom shale in 2011 and prepared by Marc Behrendt



#46 Trilobites, complete specimen is 2.7 cm long, discovered by Jonathan Hoag July 2011 in the Windom Shale.



#47Enrolled trilobite, 2.0 cm wide, discovered by Jonathan Hoag July 2011 in the Windom shale



#48  Tiny Trilobite, 1.2 cm long, collected by Megan Ferguson July 2011 from the Windom Shale


#49  Dipleura pygidium, 5 cm across, found by Megan Ferguson in the Windom shale, July 2011. The whole specimen might have been 22 cm or 8-1/2 inches.

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