Fossil Digging for 500 Million Year Old Trilobites in Utah

OPEN TO PUBLIC LOCATION!!!
Come on out and dig your own trilobite bug fossils! This location is in Utah, and its such a blast digging these fossils. Watch till the end to see how you can also go and dig and how to get there.

[@crispchaos]

I found a trilobite fossil in my front yard when I was a kid. Just like the first rock you picked up. Was so cool and how I became fascinated with 🦖.

[@Oord76]

Wow! In my yard I only find rainworms and dirt.

[@icatz]

So great that you're a fossil hound too. Thanks for taking us with you. I love finding fossils.

[@LouinVB]

Trilobites are nicknamed "bugs" by trilobite lovers. I hunted here in the Antelope & House range in the early 80s when it was wide open with no mining claims anywhere. I'd camp out over the weekend under starlit skies before heading back home in Salt Lake City where I lived then. Found lots of trilobites that I still have in my collection.

[@mezellenjohnson2753]

A great episode and very interesting, we have a fossil site near where we live but I can't get there in my wheelchair which is a great shame but family members go there now and again. I did go fossil hunting on the Jurassic coast here in the UK once and brought some I found home. I really enjoyed that experience. Thank you for sharing your adventures, Happy Christmas and a Wonderful New Year to you. Mary-Ellen UK

[@bokunokintama5523]

Oh look he actually likes your comment! That never happens to me lol.

[@CrystalsofArkansas]

What a cool spot for fossil lovers! Looks like easy collecting and well preserved specimen. Nice!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yes! Would enjoy having you out for the big opening event next spring!

[@varisciteveins]

come out and dig!

[@StalkeraBg]

desertwildheart Wait, it isnt closed off ? I know some like these in the US are private and you cant really visit em

[@bulletmog]

I wish I could go somewhere with such old and well preserved fossils like in this video, but I live in the uk, and I don’t know any good places to find them

[@sirskateify]

@@StalkeraBg U dig is open to the public

[@hi.moriarty]

Happy Holidays, Brian! Thanks very much for the upload. I will always be amazed that the Earth holds such a snapshot into history, whether fossil or crystals, Just WOW!

[@helgedonath1524]

trilobites are my absolute favorite animals! I would give something to be in this place with you. Thank you for showing me. greeting helge from germany.

[@kellyharper367]

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I love it! My favorite bug! I enjoyed this video so much!

[@roxymanasquan9087]

Happy Holidays Brian! Gary & I Love your videos-- so informative & a ton of fun. You always make our day! (his first gift to me -- on Valentines Day, 30 years ago-- was a spectacular cluster of orthoceras. That's when I knew it was true love) Keep on Rockin'!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

What a great story 🙌💎💜💜💜

[@InskeepJohnson]

"Casing!" Thats a new one. Lol! Kool Trilobite VIdeo ! Welcome to the Fossil World!

[@anerolllanes3737]

That is amazing. Thank you Brian for the awesome video

[@TheCrystalCollector]

🙌💎💜

[@thatlindgirlinutah5829]

You can also find some awesome Geodes at the Dugway Geode Beds here in Utah! You don't need 4-wheel drive but I do recommend it as you have to drive for a couple hours on washboard dirt roads along the Pony Express Trail. Take shade and plenty of water since there's nothing there but dirt and Geodes!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Yes I’m going there this year!! Missed it last time

[@thatlindgirlinutah5829]

@@TheCrystalCollector Right on! If you're lucky you'll get to see some of the wild mustang herds out on the BLM land. Since I live in Tooele I always take Hwy 36 to the Pony Express Trail and spend some time at Simpson Springs. It's an old Pony Express stop and it makes for a great mid-way point to get out and stretch before you hit the roughest road of the trip. I'm excited to see the geodes you find!

[@Rookie_Rockounding]

Oh man that’s incredible! They are just so damn old man, and fall out of the rock so well! Very cool bud! Thanks for sharing this with us. I’ve never seen this done before! And washed up they’re just stunning! 👌👌👌

[@scoobnicholas3868]

Brian, you are truly livin the dream, living my dream, thanks for sharing.

[@mst7155]

Thank you so much for the wonderful upload!

[@stephanieaston6272]

I actually found a bunch of seashell fossils when I was a child. I would spend hours looking through this pile of shale(Atleast, I think that it was shale.... ) for them, right beside the ambulance department, where both of my parents were volunteer EMTs..... I'm not sure if my mom still has them, but I really hope that she does! They are the coolest thing that I ever found....!!!😎

[@milesnn]

Fantastic so sweet and in great shape the finds will spread the word thank you

[@rockhoundingusa8207]

The Crystal Collector will have to be renamed the Critter Collector! Great video....great location. I have been to U-Dig near Delta, Utah...I will have to check out this great honey hole.

[@varisciteveins]

Hey there! Come visit!!!

[@dan81359]

what a great video, Brian. I really enjoy your hunting trips. I'm in southeast, Florida so we don't have a whole lot to dig for here.

[@Oord76]

Wow! Over two years my family and I are going to Utah! I'm so exited for it!!

[@amandarb933]

I love your videos! I cant wait to visit you at the diamond hill mine to!!!

[@varisciteveins]

That's great! How fun!

[@misha3872]

Trilobites are my absolute favorite, some very nice Elrathia Kingii you were able to find in here too!

[@TheLastHowlMain]

Amazing!! Love the channel!!

[@SouthGAJester]

Wow super awesome video!!! I am going to have to get out there and find some trilobites!!!

[@maSkizles]

Great video as always

[@kelly70394]

So amazing!

[@fossiladventures2926]

Looks a great place to collect. Unfortunalty there are no Trilobites on the coast where we collect

[@chrismulholland6202]

Another great video!

[@Absolution55]

That was so cool, great finds

[@asadbraxton8386]

Nice find 👍👍

[@Itsmeangie13]

Pretty interesting and full of history!!!

[@anomalyy999]

Trilobites molt their exoskeletons like modern-day crabs and lobsters do, so some of them are fossils of the molts not bodies. You can tell if it's a molt or a body by the "cheeks" at the top of the head, where the eyes are. If it's a molt it doesn't have them.

[@Nivasi]

wow looks like loads of fun!

[@emperoraries622]

Lol straight from the parking lot floor 😂 love it

[@MrAmethystguy]

[Nods head approvingly] Fantastic video bro! Well done

[@vanessapedraspreciosasecam6379]

Maravilha, a natureza é exuberante, e intrigante mesmo com o passar dos tempos.!!valeu Show de ⚽ like.😎

[@sanderbardsen6651]

Yay fossiles

[@rickstaco]

That is so cool today I just went seashell hunting and I just uploaded the video aswell. Great video

[@patiencep2667]

This looks like so darn much fun. How do you get in to so many places? Do you have to pay a lot or do they allow you to hunt for the advertising they get, or a mix of both. Can I go with you to one of crystal digging this summer? I have no car, and not a lot of money, but I'd like to hunt crystals for my jewelry I make. Like I said, I can't get around by myself, but would love to come on one of your trips. In the mean time, I'll keep watching and enjoying you and your gang. Happy New Year?

[@pencilshavings1389]

Imagine seeing those things crawling all over the place today

[@varisciteveins]

That's gross

[@ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527]

I thought it’s in the water

[@2Round2Square]

They are still alive I mean you might as well stumble on one that is really close to it called a rolley polley

[@dec81964]

I'd LOVE it!

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

Gerda Jokubauskaitė They are; but pill bugs still exist and share the basic body plan that trilobites had.

[@peaceharmony3803]

Thank you for sharing💕💖💕

[@robinmorris8015]

Wow, that's amazing.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

I’m glad the Geico Caveman has found a new hobby.

[@drsaymore2721]

Awesome video

[@mst7155]

Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only the fact that is possible to find some animal or plant that lived 500 millions years ago is mind-blowing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kimwilson7416]

What a place to explore happy exploring

[@audiobook3837]

Wow thats cool. Im in AZ digging rock up for my septic. Im inspired to try looking.

[@montanyerolopezdiaz3266]

Me encanta!!!! Es posible buscar trilobites allí???? Hay que pagar entrada por buscar????

[@happycanadianmom4233]

I have always wanted to find a trilobite! So cool

[@curtiss.arnold1318]

I'm very excited to go on my first big geology trip to Arizona in February, but now that I know Utah is close to Michigan (closER than Arizona) I may just head out there!

[@curtiss.arnold1318]

Totally realized that Utah is essentially in the same neck of the woods as Arizona, and that my speciality isn't in cartography.

[@byronleatham1183]

You need to get some rock in the gym Stone guide books for Utah and Arizona part the part of Utah where the trouble bites are there is also a great number of other very exciting places to collect rocks and minerals of all kinds there are smoky quartz malachite septarian nodules geodes topaz just to name a few you can spend a lifetime there and never find out everything plus some interesting geology you can't find anywhere else so yes it's well worth your time take a pickup so you can take specimens home with you

[@byronleatham1183]

Plus you can go to Lehman caves in the great basin national Park

[@mannys9130]

This is so so beyond cool. Wow.

[@typicalrockhound9887]

Awesome! ;)

[@cryptozoologistinvestigato6964]

It's really fascinating when you think of it: Arthropods from when practically all life on earth was aquatic to die and be embedded within rocks Withstanding the elements with many events and lifetimes taking place above them until one day their remains are dug up and collected to be studied and sold to areas far from their resting place What a simple yet remarkable journey

[@moon1111rises]

Theyre so cute 🐞

[@littlejohn1140]

I love the Zelda music 🌅

[@jeanneamato8278]

There’s a dry riverbed in southern Ohio that has fossils just lying around. Trilobites, crinoids, ancient clams. Some quite large and museum quality.

[@paigelee6321]

Interesting

[@xoese3753]

Very cool

[@kathleenw5788]

Please tell me how it is possible that the trilobite has imprinted it's self in the rock,and not just wasted away to nothing first?

[@mag-7897]

hello, I'm from Brazil, how many hours did you spend there digging?

[@DigDigDig]

Butter knives may work to split that shale into larger pieces versus just smacking it with a rock hammer? Score the very large pieces with multiple butter knives... good ones not the cheap Wallymart ones That's what I use for saint clair ferns in PA.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

I love to go up there and dig some more ferns in Pennsylvania, I’ve only been once about five or six years ago. We should go up there and do a video together if that’s allowed still

[@DigDigDig]

@@TheCrystalCollector I have the permit to 4x4....the waiver doesnt mention it not being allowed....at least the waiver from last year, I'm waiting on this year's to come in the mail.

[@jamesemberton9661]

❤️

[@KubotaManDan]

very cool

[@queirozpedraslapidadasebru7039]

Muito Bom Amigo Parabéns

[@Pattysspr]

Utah also a great state to find Geos

[@raii4026]

So cool

[@quatermaindetecting7530]

Nice Video 👍👍weiter so Kollege echt Klasse macht Laune zuzuschauen 👍🙋‍♂️Abo und like 👍 Gruß Quatermain Detecting

[@miker5893]

They look delicious! it would be pretty cool to wrap or drill one for a necklace and put it up for sale on your ebay site. i would buy one!

[@TheCrystalCollector]

I’ll be adding some soon

[@infinityxtanishq8712]

Respect those fossils , they’re extremely valuable

[@bolangbaling5303]

👍

[@ricoellorza7998]

Jessica lookin’ like a snack!

[@byronleatham1183]

P I spent many hours digging for trouble bites in that area there are so many different types I don't even remember the names all of them there is one a horseshoe crap and the trilobite is the first living organism on the planet that had eyes they were the first ones to see they came before fish or any other creature and the oldest ones are estimated at 600 years old

[@MaryJenkinsallamericanmary]

I need a friend like Jessica to go adventuring with me! She rocks! (Pardon the pun.)

[@JSees]

You look so much better in 2021 with no beard and shorter hair.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

⚡️✨💜

[@garrystone5409]

yup Elrathia sp. trilobites

[@isabellyshelly8276]

Where is this?

[@amp3cx10000a7jp]

I also got a cute little trilobite fossil w from here I have some.

[@Asta-wl8jz]

Do you have a location in Tucson for the Gem and Mineral show yet? I'm hoping to get the opportunity to view your collection.

[@cypressesparza1453]

Do you know when the next one is? I've always wanted to go but I'm in the Glendale area and always hear about it after it has passed.

[@TheCrystalCollector]

Don’t think I’ll have a setup but most likely will make it out there possibly. About 50/50

[@CelsoMarquespedraspreciosas]

Super like mais um inscrito

[@mst7155]

By the way ,if you d ask me how much are the fossil trilobites worth....I would say 500 millions U S dollars because they are 500 millions years old.The age of the fossils,not only mind blowing, but answers a lot of profound scientific questions.

[@carlossolana2449]

Hey may i corect you trlobites where arthropods not bugs like you called them

[@varisciteveins]

You're right

[@beepboop8236]

YOU ARE CORRECT >:3

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

Insects are Arthropods though...so I don’t understand your point.

[@wallywutsizface6346]

Big Brother insects are a type of arthropod and trilobites were a type of arthropod, but they’re not the same thing. Like how we aren’t the same thing as dogs even though we’re both mammals

[@floralchicken]

Grammar has left the chat

[@emiliosthemistocleous2453]

Nice videos keep it up 💎💎⛏💎⛏💎⛏⛏⛏💎⛏⛏⛏💎⛏💎

[@trixietheopawslife8232]

Hey guys do you guys selling them online? And get it ship to Australia? I would love to buy the one at 6:01.. $30 dollars including the shipping fees..

[@roseannecarratkinson4271]

What part of my home state, Utah did you come too?

[@TheCrystalCollector]

An hour south of Salt Lake City

[@robvegart]

to have a better split with out decimating the rock or fossil, it's best to use a chisel and hammer. Pick hammers are brutal to the rock and finds.

[@AngrySinn]

Bugs? You gotta be kidding me

[@neptunemacaw3354]

What does the matrix mean?

[@barbaralwisdom]

😲

[@coachmatheny]

I have a troll bite fossil.But it’s in a rock.

[@SpaceBound-1]

This planet had an infestation.

[@carllewis166]

I need to hit this place

[@cadenb612]

I couldent find them on the map, any clue as to what there address is?( there facebook page address does not work)

[@TheCrystalCollector]

They are right beside the other mine as seen on tv

[@drealary1065]

I’ve been to the same place

[@2lemonades]

Okay

[@jessicakramer4643]

Are there any live ones still today?

[@gerrardjones28]

Unfortunately they went extinct in the great dying

[@byronleatham1183]

Yes there are the horseshoe crab pay direct

[@FATHERSOFBASS]

I’m 48 n my Christmas present when I was 11 was a Nintendo NES n also got the big joystick controller n it came with Mario brother n Zelda I don’t member the exact dates… I’m wondering if ur as old as me

[@PowerKonijn]

ive never found a complete one D: how come complete ones are so common over there? I mostly find the parts of the shell (head, middle secion, most often bottom half), like the parts left behind when they shed their 'skin' (in Estonia and Sweden)

[@user-fq8iu3vu1e]

Жучки...паучки...

[@sangnguyenthithanhsang7098]

Hi..

[@PatoPreparado]

You look like Aragorn