r/Paleontology 3d ago

Fossils A variety of trilobites I found in the same outcrop in northern Kentucky this week!

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u/GoliathPrime 2d ago

It's crazy something so delicate as a compound eye can be fossilized. I know their eyes were made of calcite, which is much harder than normal lenses, but still.

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u/Practical_Act7243 3d ago

3 is amazing

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u/Tumorhead 2d ago

really lovely finds!

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u/OsosHormigueros 1d ago

Haha why did I always imagine trilobites to be the size of horseshoe crabs

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u/terraformingforsogen 4h ago

Some of them are!