Prehistoric Invertebrates

[SBell]

Ha. Damn you, Yowies.

Well, the figures are nice. Even if their facts are conflicting or nonsensical.

[Halichoeres]

Ha. Damn you, Yowies.

Well, the figures are nice. Even if their facts are conflicting or nonsensical.

I wish they'd bring back Lost Kingdoms, honestly.

[SBell]

Ha. Damn you, Yowies.

Well, the figures are nice. Even if their facts are conflicting or nonsensical.

I wish they'd bring back Lost Kingdoms, honestly.

Maybe it will depend on how successful their current rebirth has been? The figures are nice (I love my pupfish!) so some prehistoric animals would seem like a logical step forward.

[Takama]

Ha. Damn you, Yowies.

Well, the figures are nice. Even if their facts are conflicting or nonsensical.

I wish they'd bring back Lost Kingdoms, honestly.

Maybe it will depend on how successful their current rebirth has been? The figures are nice (I love my pupfish!) so some prehistoric animals would seem like a logical step forward.

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I wasted enough money trying to complte the modern day sereies by getting doubles or (monsters). if they start doing prehistorics again, i will go insane

[Brontozaurus]

Ha. Damn you, Yowies.

Well, the figures are nice. Even if their facts are conflicting or nonsensical.

I wish they'd bring back Lost Kingdoms, honestly.

Maybe it will depend on how successful their current rebirth has been? The figures are nice (I love my pupfish!) so some prehistoric animals would seem like a logical step forward.

Lost Kingdoms was a tie-in with a museum exhibition of the same name. I wouldn't put it past them to have a new prehistoric line eventually though.

[bmathison1972]

I recently bought a Leanchoilia superlata from Paleocasts (Patrick May). I also inquired about some small figures by Pat that I saw on DTF, and he sold me a bunch of them at a nice price. In the end I ended up with 10 new taxa representing 9 new genera: the enigmatic L. superlata, six trilobites (Harpes sp., Asaphus kowalewskii, Phacops sp., Hollardops sp., Asaphus cornutus, and Eldredgeia venustus), two xiphosurans (Paleolimulus and Euproops), and the crustacean Dithyrocaris.



Halichoeres: You have most of these and I see you have your Hollardops identified as Calymene. Was that your ID? I ask because Pat specifically told me the figure was intended to be Hollardops. By the way, it makes me wonder if the Bullyland trilobite was intended to be Hollardops, too!

[Halichoeres]

I recently bought a Leanchoilia superlata from Paleocasts (Patrick May). I also inquired about some small figures by Pat that I saw on DTF, and he sold me a bunch of them at a nice price. In the end I ended up with 10 new taxa representing 9 new genera: the enigmatic L. superlata, six trilobites (Harpes sp., Asaphus kowalewskii, Phacops sp., Hollardops sp., Asaphus cornutus, and Eldredgeia venustus), two xiphosurans (Paleolimulus and Euproops), and the crustacean Dithyrocaris.



Halichoeres: You have most of these and I see you have your Hollardops identified as Calymene. Was that your ID? I ask because Pat specifically told me the figure was intended to be Hollardops. By the way, it makes me wonder if the Bullyland trilobite was intended to be Hollardops, too!

I looked back at my email thread with Pat, and I had guessed Calymene in part because at the time I assumed everything he made was North American. He responded very briefly (I think from a phone) to identify the Harpes and Dithyrocaris, but he didn't correct my ID on the Calymene, so I assumed I had guessed correctly. Looking at it again, the pygidium is too serrate, and the genal spine too long and swept back, to be Calymene. Thanks for the correction; I've adjusted my collection thread accordingly.

[bmathison1972]

fossil crab, Portunites sp. by Fossil Molds and Replicas. Normally I wouldn't go for something like this, but it's a new genus for me. You can buy a kit or do what I did and buy an unpainted plaster cast.

Before and after highlights (I need to do some touchups, I know...):

[Bowhead Whale]

I own the Safari ltd Cambrian Life Toob; the Bullyland large Ammonite, Trilobite, Belemnite and Jellyfish; as well as the Kaiyodo Pleurocystites and Opabinia.

[bmathison1972]

Just got this guy!!!! Review coming up soon on DTB (my first).

[Katieraptor]

Anyone know of any Cryptolithus sp models?

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Anyone know of any Cryptolithus sp models?

None that I know of... I have a a few of the real thing though, much better than having a figure IMO.

If you're interested there's one on eBay right now; not the best by any means but here it is:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/GEOLOGICAL-ENTERPRISES-Ordovician-Fossil-Trilobite-Cryptolithus-bellulus/312046298883?hash=item48a768a703:g:LoUAAOSw4PxZ75R-

[Halichoeres]

Anyone know of any Cryptolithus sp models?

That would be so cool! Relatively few trilobites have been made in plastic. Maybe the closest one is the one from the Safari Ancient Fossils Toob. I don't know what species it is, but not Cryptolithus.


(photo from toyanimal.info)

But hey, if Pachyrhinosaurus can get you a real one, damn, do that.

[Katieraptor]

Yeah I'm probably just gonna have to look for fossils or other models. Maybe there's a Phacops sp?

[Halichoeres]

Not that I know of. Here are all the trilobite genera in plastic or resin that I know of, apart from a variety of things labeled generically as "trilobite:"

Ceraurinella (Kaiyodo)
Harpes (Paleocasts by Patrick May)
Hollardops (Paleocasts by Patrick May)
Kettneraspis (Yowie)
Naraoia (Safari, probably not a trilobite strictly speaking)
Olenoides (CollectA, Colorata, Favorite, Royal Ontario Museum; probably also the Cog Ltd trilobite)
Psychopyge (Kaiyodo)
Triarthrus (Kaiyodo)
Tricrepicephalus (Safari)

Pretty meager variety considering how diverse trilobites were, honestly.

[Katieraptor]

Not even Elrathia? Wtf?

The reason I ask is that my partner is absolutely nuts about Trilobites and I wanted to possibly surprise them at some point with a model or fossil of one of their favorites, either Cryptolithus or Phacops.

[Halichoeres]

I have to correct myself! Mr. May also makes this trilobite set, which includes a Phacops:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/563168160/paint-yourself-trilobite-cast-collection?ref=shop_home_active_1

Also TST Advance makes a variety of plush trilobites.

[Katieraptor]

Plush Trilobites! So cute!

[bmathison1972]

Anyone know of any Cryptolithus sp models?

That would be so cool! Relatively few trilobites have been made in plastic. Maybe the closest one is the one from the Safari Ancient Fossils Toob. I don't know what species it is, but not Cryptolithus.


(photo from toyanimal.info)

But hey, if Pachyrhinosaurus can get you a real one, damn, do that.

Tim, this Ancient Fossils TOOB trilobite is Raymondites (which appears now to be in Bathyurus?), the same genus they made for their large Safariology fossil figure.

By the way, here are the arthropods from the Paleozoic Creatures set by Colorata:
1. sea scorpion, Acutiramus macrophthalmus (a new/unique species in toy/figure form)
2. trilobite, Olenoides serratus (once uncommon, it seems to be the go-to species these days)
3. anomalocarid, Anomalocaris canadensis (again, commonly made)

Despite the lack of originality with two of them, these are nice little figures!

[bmathison1972]

Song Kong Dino Mecard Anomalocaris. These and additional images submitted for DTB review