Our trilobite collecting trip went very well. We arrived in the Marble Mountains of California on April 5th after fighting rain, wind and snow on our drive through Utah. As we attempted to set camp up we had to fight very strong wind in order to get our tents up.

Two of the tents were blowing [...]

Next week we are headed out to the Marble Mountains south of the Mojave National Preserve of California to collect trilobites from the Lower Cambrian Latham Shale, below cliffs of Chambless Limestone. For the past two years the Museum has taken a collecting trip out to this area and returned with many specimens for the Museum collections, research [...]