Minnesota here. My dad took us kids fossil hunting. Mostly we found crinoids and simple shells, but sometimes a trilobite or two as well. Dad liked that, he was a trilobite man.
Quoting from the “Equatorial Minnesota” blog of Justin Tweet, “a researcher and writer who has been helping to inventory and catalog the fossil resources of the National Park Service”:
My experience is that even though guides to Minnesota fossils call trilobites rare, pieces of trilobites are actually fairly common. It’s just you’ll need to calibrate your expectations away from beautiful complete specimens to a ton of Eomonarchus intermedius pygidia, indeterminate fragments of larger trilobites, and the occasional cephalon.
– Trilobites @ Equatorial Minnesota
I will add further notes (and possibly write some fiction about trilobites … suggestions, anyone?) @ the Gnomon Chronicles:
http://gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/Trilobite_(nonfiction)
Okay, I found my first related fiction:
