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May 24, 2003
This was one of those historic trips.
I went along with a close friend of mine on a research project to
locate the only known occurrence of Harpids in Utah. What made it
historic was that the king of the Utah Ordovician himself, Lehi Hintze,
accompanied us on this journey. He had found the first Harpid 50+
years ago, but since it was only a couple fragments it never made
its way into his work. Hopefully, this trilobite will finally be described.
I have purposely left out any pictures that might give away the location
of our trip. This is a sensitive area. Many people have trusted us
with this information and we have tried to preserve their trust by
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Lehi and Arvid. Arvid is doing all of the primary research on the description of the new trilobite. I am just helping. |
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| We spent most of the morning wandering up various washes trying to find the spot where the original pieces were found. It took a couple hours before we knew we had it. |  |
| One thing that was quite amazing was that Lehi's son, who did a lot of the field work along with his Dad over 50 years ago, remembered almost every detail about the locality. |  |
| Here are a couple pictures with fragments of the Harpid that we were looking for. We went expecting to find that they are very rare. As the day went on we found quite a few of them. None were in great shape, but for a first trip out we felt pretty good about what we found. |  |
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After we satisfied our interests
in locating the zone where the Harpids were found we wandered around
in some other areas in search of other trilobites. We stumbled across
a few, like this Presbynileus ibexensis.
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I spent a lot of time photographing
the local flora.
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And some time with the fauna as well. Right - Great Basin Rattlesnake |
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