Three-dimensional trilobite images
The coolest research website you haven't seen is on Whitney Hagadorn's page at Amherst.
With undergraduate student Martha Buck, he's taken pyritized trilobite fossils from the upper Ordovician Frankfort Shale ("Beecher's Trilobite Beds") near Rome, New York, and X-rayed them. A series of X-ray images taken at different angles have been spliced together into a movie, which gives a real sense of the three-dimensional nature of the fossil, as well as insight into the finer details of its anatomy like legs and antennae, which don't often fossilize:
With undergraduate student Martha Buck, he's taken pyritized trilobite fossils from the upper Ordovician Frankfort Shale ("Beecher's Trilobite Beds") near Rome, New York, and X-rayed them. A series of X-ray images taken at different angles have been spliced together into a movie, which gives a real sense of the three-dimensional nature of the fossil, as well as insight into the finer details of its anatomy like legs and antennae, which don't often fossilize:
Labels: fossils, ordovician, websites
2 Comments:
Wow! I like it.
Wow! How did I miss this...?
Two days after this post I left for a trip to collect Triathrus sp. at a "new" quarry in the Frankfort Sh. near Rome.
A nice ventral, with appendages can be seen
HERE on my Photobucket page. Warning!!! There is some gore from a leg wound encountered on the trip.
A few un-prepped Triathrus sp., from the outcrop, are on my
flickr page.
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