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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2326470, member: 44210&quot;]Over the winter holiday I took a trip with family to Atlanta and the surrounding area. One of the places we went to was the Fernbank Natural History Museum (despite its name it also has exhibits detailing Georgia&#039;s human history). Has a cool Imax theater as well. Anyways I picked up this trilobite fossil (my first) from the museum&#039;s gift shop. I like fossils (but I don&#039;t really collect them like coins), this one was cool-looking and was affordable, so I thought &quot;why not?&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was expecting it to be only around the age of the oldest of my few other fossils (a piece of coral ~250 million years old) which would still have been neat but imagine my surprise when I found out that it was much older than that. The tag only said Morocco trilobite so I did some digging (<i>ba-dum-chishhhh!</i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) and found out that is (hopefully I&#039;m correct on this) a trilobite from the genus Flexicalymene, which existed from the Ordovician (485.4 MYA) to the Silurian (419.2 MYA) Period. From my limited understanding trilobites and old fossils like it are a dime a dozen but it really is cool to have something from such a long time ago like 400-something million years. Also fascinating was the fact that trilobites are still kind of with us, in the form of their descendants the horseshoe crabs.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicalymene" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicalymene" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicalymene</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/1_zpslktfolk4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/3_zpsiw07tj3n.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/2%202_zps1lbydfhk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trilobites going nuts at a wild party (pic from finefossils.com):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/trilobites_zpszosqz2cq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Map of my trilobite&#039;s world (scotese.com):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/ordovicianmap_zpsnrrwunhz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Please feel free to post any fossils you own!</u> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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