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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I have a fossil trilobite. It is just a little 1.5 inch long one. I bought it from someone long ago. It is cool to hold something that was alive millions of years ago.
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As UCSB a geology student, I spent a month mapping the geology of a place called the Poleta Folds, in the White/Inyo Mountains, the next range east of the Sierra. There was a limestone formation that was about 550 million years old, and it was full of trilobite fossils. The coolest one was a fossil that lay at the end of the tracks it made walking its final, dying steps. Pretty amazing seeing where a creature died half a billion years ago.
Oh, and even though I'm a geologist, I don't know what those other fossils are, but the clam shell is a type of brachiopod.