🤔 RAINBOW colored Trilobites??

[@DavidLangie]

Fossils are more my thing than minerals. I love collecting carboniferous fossils here in Illinois. Cool stuff.

[@JoanieBC]

I had no idea about the pyrite preservation/coloration. That's the best thing I've learned all week!

[@johno1544]

Ive seen a few of those pyrite trillobite fossils with the soft parts preserved come up for sale on the private market. Thousands of dollars for a single specimen that was under a inch.

[@42ZaphodB42]

Thats some gorgeous work on those trilobites. Gotta love these three dimensional fossils

[@grapebass5025]

Interesting ❤

[@matthewrivard3709]

I feel like most of the trilobytes found in deep water would be pale white like most deep sea creatures due to a lack of light. Ive got a higher feeling shallow water trilobytes wouldve seen some colour variations depending on diet but likely in dark reds browns and blacks since they are suspected of having typical bottom feeder diets, and those tend to be the colours we see with bottom feeder species. Itd be cool to see em in rainbow colours and stuff but i think theyre lacking the diets we see in those kind of colourful species on earth. A lot of what things look like comes from what they ate.

[@sandmaker]

That's neat. Thanks for sharing.

[@DWillRockU]

Was great to have access to his knowledge

[@LARRYGONZALES2019]

Wow I had no idea that just amazing color in pyrite that's fantastic 👏 Thank you for sharing

[@Bobsbedazzlingrocks]

omg 🤩. thank you Elley.

[@TeighMart]

Nice. Great voice for this kind of stuff

[@astoroidea6502]

That is fascinating! I knew pyrite preservation is one of the more sought after types of trilobite fossils but I didn’t know why, thanks for teaching us!

[@DWillRockU]

Ur knowledge is fantastic. I worked as sales and marketing Mgr for a Man renowned as the world's 3 best authority on Echinoids

[@JulesUS8386]

Yeah I like the limonite I have the bodies of their descendents… Horseshoe crab I would love to have a nice spider preserved. The ones I have are in amber…. Jurassic Park 🕷️🦖

[@benwinkel]

A lesson can be learned, even of humble trilobites: If they could be 'diverse' so long ago, so should we.

[@brianfitzgerald286]

❤

[@meera8140]

Mam, where are you from?

[@LegallyMason]

I always kind of imagined a potato bug but with like a mother of pearl type sheen

[@mariannewhitefield7492]

The remind me of a Cinnapied, Those hairy leg type !

[@Lapidarydiary]

Very educative as always. I recently bought my first fossil on a christmas market of all places. I ´ve put it in a post on my channel if you want to see it. Cheers

[@Fawnfreckle]

AAAGH that's cool asf what

[@JHowOfficial]

That trilobite looks like an underwater cockroach 😂 pretty cool!

[@ComradeMime]

Can we clone them they're so cute

[@Schody_lol]

I’m so upset that they’re extinct

[@BarbzTingzz]

Cry

[@elcatrinc1996]

So some of them could have been Neon pink?

[@RickSmith-kp3sy]

Wasn't that a kids toy in the 80's? Rainbowtrilobrite?

[@kimstringfellow8324]

who is breathing so loud?

[@john-me1fc]

you sound like you need to cough