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Despite extensive searching, no specimens were found stratigraphically lower in the outcrop, and lack of exposure prevented sampling just above the trilobite occurrence.
Much scarcer are other types of bituminous skeletal limestones, which consist mostly of crinoid ossicles associated with rare brachiopod and trilobite remains.
Skeletal grains are disarticulated and generally from brachiopods and trilobites.
These cor relations are based on small shelly fossil and trilobite taxa.
We could all write of our first trilobite find.
It also increases our knowledge of the evolution of early ontogeny in proetoid trilobites.
Wellpreserved, non-abraded brachiopods and club-like bryozoans are abundant, whereas gastropods and disarticulated trilobite cuticles are sparse.
Many specimens are incomplete, and this, together with their co-occurrence with fragmentary trilobites, spicules of sponges, sclerites of chancelloriids and other shelly organisms, suggests transportation.
