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New Trilobite Pages 2007 - 2008

Posted: December 2006

Esmeraldina/Palmettaspis
Esmeraldina
Oryctocephalinae
Crusoia cebes
Tonkinella stephensis
Zacanthoides typicalis

Posted: November 2006

Amecephalus piochensis
Chisholm Shale Formation
Home Page Site Search Engine Installation
Many broken link fixes

Posted: October 2006

Bristolia bristolensis
Esmeraldina
Meteoraspis

Posted: Nov. 26, 2005

Emigrantia n. gen. et sp.

Bristolia insolens (Resser, 1928)

?Dicanthopyge (McKay Group)

Tonopahella goldfieldensis Sundberg and McCollum, 2003

New specimens added to existing species pages:

Amecephalus idahoense

 

Posted: Nov. 24, 2005

 

New species of  trilobites added:

Pagetia sp. Metaline Fm.

Poliella sp. Metaline Fm.

new unidentified Albertella?

Metabowmania sp. nov. (Fillmore Formation)

New specimens added to existing species pages:

new unidentified kochaspid

 

Posted: Nov. 11, 2005

 

New species of  trilobites added:

New specimens added to existing species pages:

Olenoides trispinus

Altiocculus drumensis Sundberg, 1994

Olenellus fremonti Walcott, 1910

Syspacephalus variosus Sundberg & McCollum, 2003

 

Posted: Nov. 11, 2005

 

New species of  trilobites added:

Alokistocare subcoronatum (Hall and Whitfield, 1877)

Onchocephalites claytonensis Sundberg & McCollum, 2003b

Nevadia sp.

Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed, 1910)

Oryctocephalus americanus Sundberg & McCollum, 2003

New specimens added to existing species pages:

Olenellus terminatus Palmer, 1998

Olenoides n. sp.

 

Posted: Nov. 9, 2005

 

New species of  trilobites added:

Nevadia parvoconica

"new wanneriid" (possibly Elliptocephala)

Esmeraldina / Palmettaspis sp. (Campito Fm.)

Nevadia sp.  (Campito Fm.)

Microryctocara nevadensis

 

Posted: 12/11/08

 

New Fieldtrip Page

Species List now split into 4 pages for faster loading

 

Posted: 12/11/08

 

New trilobites on the Trilobite ID. page.

New species of  trilobites added:

Fallotaspis sp.

unidentified new kochaspid

cf. Labiostria westropi

cf. Pseudagnostus communis

cf. Wujiajiania sutherlandi

Syspacephalus variosus Sundberg & McCollum, 2003b

New Formations added:

Mount Mark Fm.

New photos: (Nevadia weeksi, Ogygopsis elongata)

 

Posted: 04/11/08

 

New species of  trilobites added (all from the Pika Fm.):

Marjumia sp. (see Melzak and Westrop, 1994)

Olenoides cf. O. pugio (Walcott, 1908)

Glyphaspis tetonensis Resser, 1937

Knechtelia festiva (Lochman and Hu, 1960)

Bolaspidella resseri (Miller, 1936)

Glyphaspis sp. 1 (see Melzak and Westrop, 1994)

Glyphaspis sp. 2 (see Melzak and Westrop, 1994)

Glyphaspis? cf. G.? curticei Resser, 1938

Marjumia bagginsi Melzak and Westrop, 1994

Marjumia cf. M. transversa (Palmer, 1968)

Plagiura? cf. P. retracta Palmer and Halley, 1979

Spencella cf. S. montanensis Rasetti, 1963

Gen. and sp. indet. 1 (see Melzak and Westrop, 1994)

Gen. and sp. indet. 2 (see Melzak and Westrop, 1994)

 

Posted: 04/10/11

 

New species of  trilobites added:

Esmeraldina sp.

 

Posted: 04/10/26

-New Trilobite ID. page. Please help us out in identifying these trilobites, or submit photos you need identified.

-New photographs of trilobites from the Bill White collection (incl. Jenkinsonia, Hemirhodon, Brachyaspidion, Modecia brevispina, Modecia typicalis). Some of these specimens need identification as well as formation and location information. Please visit our Trilobite ID. page to lend a hand.

-New Download: Devereux, M.G., 2001. Palaeoecology of the Middle Cambrian Raymond Quarry Fauna, Burgess Shale, British Columbia.  M.Sc. thesis, Department of Earth Sciences (Geology), The University of Western Ontario. See Downloads page. If you need individual Word, Excel, or other files within this thesis, please contact Kevin

 

Posted: 04/10/20

New Formations added:

Burgess Shale Formation

Stephen Formation

Takakkaw Tongue Formation

 

 

Posted: 04/10/15

New Formations added:

Mount Whyte Formation

Naiset Formation

Peyto Formation

Bright Angel Shale

 

 

Posted: 04/10/11

New Formations added:

Gazelle Formation

Donald Formation

 

New species of  trilobites added:

"Nephalocephalus beebei"

Biceratops nevadensis

Irvingella sp. A

Pseudomera cf. barrandei

 

 

Posted: 04/08/31

4 new articles (.pdf) on the Downloads Page, courtesy of Dr. Fred Sundberg

 

Posted: 04/08/30

WANTED POSTERS:

Dr. (Sheriff) Fred Sundberg is searching for some unusual trilobites. Please visit his WANTED poster to see if you can help capture the suspects: WANTED: DEAD!

 

 

Posted: 04/08/29

5 new species of trilobites to the Metaline Formation added, plus revisions to the Metaline (Washington Formations) page and Chisholm Shale page.

New species of  trilobites added:

Bathyuriscus sp.

Elrathia longiceps

Kootenia sp.

Ogygopsis elongata
Ogygopsis klotzi

Olenoides maladensis

Ptychoparella cordillerae

Proehmaniella basilica

Ptychagnostus michaeli

Dorypyge n. sp.

Ogygopsis typicalis

Zacanthoides walapai

Zacanthoides n. sp. (Chisholm Fm.)

 
New additions:
 
added Colorado Formations - fairly complete faunal listing for the Manitou and Peerless Formantions. Other Formations need more complete lists. If you have information on any of these (or missing formations), please contact me (Kevin).
 

COLORADO (all links below go to the same page for now):

 

Beldon Formation  (Pennsylvanian)

Chaffee Formation, Dyer Dolomite Member ( Devonian)

Glen Eerie Formation (Lower Pennsylvanian)

Hermosa Formation (Pennsylvanian)

Manitou Formation (Low. Ordovician)

Maroon Formation (Pennsylvanian)

Minturn Formation (Pennsylvanian)

Ouray Limestone (Mississippian)

Peerless Formation (Upp. Cambrian)

Weber Formation (Pennsylvanian)
Williams Canyon Formation (Upp. Dev. / Low. Miss.)

 

3 new species from Colorado (Leiostegium, Kainella, and Ameura)

 

--added Twin Knobs Formation (Idaho) and Naomi Peak Limestone (Utah) - http://www.westernta.com/Formations/TwinKnobs.htm

-both are on the same page.

 

added New Mexico Formations - fairly complete faunal listing for the Caballero and Lake Valley Formations. Other Formations need more complete lists. If you have information on any of these (or missing formations), please contact me.

 

NEW MEXICO (all links below go to the same page for now):

 

Lake Valley Formation (Dona Ana, Arcente, Tierra Blanca, Nunn, Alamogordo, and Andrecito Members) (lower Mississippian)

Kelly Formation (Mississippian)

Caballero Formation (lower Mississippian)

San Andreas Formation (Permian)

 

-only one trilobite from New Mexico so far: Griffithidella doris

 

-added a few more new species from various formations (eg. Orgmaspis, Burnetiella, Nephrolenellus...)

 

-Species list and Reference list updates.