NEWS
| Sunday, December 9, 2012 | |
| Dear friends, we are happy to inform you that we have opened a new FaceBook profile at the address https://www.facebook.com/BackToThePastMuseum Feel free to visit us. Enrico & Carlo | |
| Friday, December 7, 2012 | |
Now part of the Museum collection. Sagittal dimension: 21 cm (8,3 inches) | |
| Friday, December 7, 2012 | |
| Friday, December 7, 2012 | |
| Thursday, December 6, 2012 | |
| Thursday, November 15, 2012 | |
The specimen was collected approximately 10m above the Deep Spring Formation contact. Sagittal dimension: 3cm | |
| Thursday, October 4, 2012 | |
The plate is 80 x 25 cm large. Two images of the assemblage are added in the gallery section. Enjoy | |
| Saturday, September 15, 2012 | |
Lets start with an exceedingly wonderful molts of Scabrella (Spiniscabrella) luxembourgensis, Muller 2005,(BPM1048). Upper Part of the Lower Devonian in Issimour (West-Seite), 16 km south-west of Alnif, South Morocco. Trilobites are 17 and 17.5cm respectively in sagittal length. Visit the gallery section for bigger resolution images. | |
| Saturday, September 15, 2012 | |
The specimens (holotype and paratype) are described in Lopez-Soriano F. & Corbacho J. (2012).A new species of Symphysops from the Upper Ordovician of Morocco. Batalleria, 17, pp.12-19. | |
| Saturday, March 31, 2012 | |
| We are searching for well conserved Permian trilobites to put in the future book. There are some volunteers that would like to share good pictures of these trilobites? | |
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 | |
| A new paper titled: "Controls on Gut Phosphatisation: The Trilobites from the Weeks Formation Lagerstatte (Cambrian; Utah)" is published now in PlosONE (open access journal), and available to download here:
http://www.plosone.org
Abstract: Authors: Lerosey-Aubril R., Hegna T.A., Kier C., Bonino E., Habersetzer J. and Carre M. Despite being internal organs, digestive structures are frequently preserved in Cambrian Lagerstatten. However, the reasons for their fossilisation and their biological implications remain to be thoroughly explored. This is particularly true with arthropods - typically the most diverse fossilised organisms in Cambrian ecosystems - where digestive structures represent an as-yet underexploited alternative to appendage morphology for inferences on their biology. Here we describe the phosphatised digestive structures of three trilobite species from the Cambrian Weeks Formation Lagerstatte (Utah). Their exquisite, three-dimensional preservation reveals unique details on trilobite internal anatomy, such as the position of the mouth and the absence of a differentiated crop. In addition, the presence of paired pygidial organs of an unknown function is reported for the first time. This exceptional material enables exploration of the relationships between gut phosphatisation and the biology of organisms. Indeed, soft-tissue preservation is unusual in these fossils as it is restricted to the digestive structures, which indicates that the gut played a central role in its own phosphatisation. We hypothesize that the gut provided a microenvironment where special conditions could develop and harboured a source of phosphorus. The fact that gut phosphatization has almost exclusively been observed in arthropods could be explained by their uncommon ability to store ions (including phosphorous) in their digestive tissues. However, in some specimens from the Weeks Formation, the phosphatisation extends to the entire digestive system, suggesting that trilobites might have had some biological particularities not observed in modern arthropods. We speculate that one of them might have been an increased capacity for ion storage in the gut tissues, related to the moulting of their heavily-mineralised carapace. | |
| Saturday, March 3, 2012 | |
But let's start with the first BIG surprise. The BPM is proud to announce that the collection is enriched by the BIGGEST trilobite ever found in USA, an undescribed Lichids, coming from the Middle Devonian Wenban Limestones, Cortez, Nevada. About 25inches!! (~63cm). A bigger image is available in the Gallery section. | |
| Saturday, March 3, 2012 | |
| We have started to collect new material (and we have collected MANY material)for a second volume of the Trilobite Guide Book. New sites and new pictures for another indispensable book for your library. We preview the finalize the (hard) work for the end of 2012, just before Christmas (at least we'll do our best to respect this timing...) | |
| Saturday, March 3, 2012 | |
A better resolution is available in the Gallery section of this site. | |
| Saturday, March 3, 2012 | |
Someone can help me to determine the big fossil located in the lower left side of the trilobite? Thank you! A better resolution is available in the Gallery section. | |
| Thursday, June 30, 2011 | |
| In the Collaborators section we have added our friend Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. A long term collaboration is planned to study some peculiar Cambrian trilobites with preserved internal structures, and relative non-trilobite arthropods. Welcome Rudy! | |
| Wednesday, May 18, 2011 | |
| A new section called "Collaborators" is now available in the website. You'll can meet the people that collaborate with the Museum, helping us to improve the visibility, publish studies, develop partnerships with other institutions/museums. Interested? Contact us!. | |
| Thursday, March 3, 2011 | |
| A couple of exceedingly rare olenellids coming from a recently discovered site in the Atan Fm. (L.Cambrian), British Columbia, Canada and a Mexicella mexicana (Carrara Fm.) are added in the on-line trilobite shop. | |
| Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | |
Thank you very much to all people that gave big interest in our book presented in the Jake Skabelund & Bob Carroll room. What a pity to not be there (Enrico), but I hope that the presence of Carlo was sufficient to fill the "gap". Here is a "souvenir" drawn by Carlo Kier, Jason Cooper, Sam Stubb, John Moffitt, Giampaolo Di Silvestro, Vittorio e Carlotta Kier, Dave Comfort and Terry White. | |
| Sunday, November 28, 2010 | |
under your eyes an association of nineteen trilobites in a unique slab, composed by Weeksina, Cedaria, Norwoodia, Menomonia and Geneveviella. A real museum grade piece, visible in the Gallery section of this web site. (Obviously this is part of the BPM and not available to be sold...) | |
| Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | |
| New beautiful trilobites are added in the on-line store. A wonderful Amecephalus laticaudum from the Cambrian Spence Shale, two French Geesops sparsinodosus (Middle Devonian Jemelle Fm.), Nephrolenellus, Psilocephalina and rare Genevievella close this series. Don't miss this occasion to acquire these unusual new fossils. | |
| Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | |
| A new collaboration has started with the Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. From this fertile partnership a first poster and abstract are presented at the 80.Jahrestagung der paläontologischen Gesellschaft - 5-8 October in Munich, Germany. The abstract is available on the revue: Zitteliana - An International Journal of Palaeontology and Geobiology, 2010,(B29), 110a-110b The title is: Vorschlag zum Fossil des Jahres 2011: Reading the entrails of... trilobites: A unique insight into the palaeobiology of early arthropods. By Rudy Lerosey-Aubril(1), Carlo Kier(2), Enrico Bonino(2), Thomas Hegna(3). (1) Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. (2) Back to the Past Museum, Carrettera Cancun, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo 77580, Mexico. (3) Department of Geology & Geophisics, P.O. Box 208109, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA. | |
| Thursday, November 11, 2010 | |
The weight is 2.4Kg (huge!) and price, postal charges included, amount to 116€ for Europe and USA. Only few copies are available (less than 4) to be sent immediately from Belgium, but don't desperate, other 800 are waiting in Italy, ready to be sent soon. If you are interested to have a look at the contents you can download the first chapters and presentation from here: http://www.keyobs.be/fr/ebonino/TriloBook/Trilobite_Presentation.pdf Otherwise you can search for your copy "googling" the ISBN Code (9788872035153) and searching for the nearest library on-line. A set of 100 books will be sent (next days) to Jake Skabelund in Las Vegas for USA distribution. Don't hesitate to contact him through his web-site http://www.usatrilobites.com/index.php to reserve your copy! | |
| Wednesday, November 10, 2010 | |
| Saturday, October 23, 2010 | |
Only for serious collectors. | |
| Sunday, October 10, 2010 | |
Don't miss it! | |
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 | |
This is the first time that we see a Lower Cambrian olenellid mineralized like this one. We would like heartily thanks Jake Skabelund, Jason Cooper and Dave Comfort to give us access at this very rare trilobite. | |
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 | |
| New trilobites from the Middle Cambrian Weeks Formation (Utah, USA) and the Upper Cambrian McKay Group (Canada) are now available on the on-line store. Don't miss it!. | |
| Monday, September 13, 2010 | |
Luc Hennion join the BPM team in our adventure. His skills in paleontology, public relation and marketing in fossil domain will help us to increase the numbers of contacts (in quantity and quality) with private and public institutions in Europe and eastern Asia. Check his profile at the bottom of the Museum Curator page. | |
| Saturday, August 7, 2010 | |
| A triplet of beautiful russian trilobites from the Ordovician of Saint Petersburg are added in the gallery. These are an excellent and rare lichids: Metopolichas verrucosus, Hoplolichas plautini and Hoplolichas tricuspidatus | |
| Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | |
His passion are obviously fossils and his collection is very very beautiful. He loves to learn to young generation what are fossils, how they are conserved in sediments, how we can find and to appreciate the real value. He loves to share his knowledge and discoveries and he has tried to create a bridge between private collectors and Institutions. The result is that all the undescribed specimens lend to Universities researcher and "professors" (Italian obviously) never come back and without any thanks. And obviously without any paper describing the specimen. This is one (of the many)dark sides of the Italian culture; fortunately not all institutions have the same behavior. One of these fossils is recovered in the Back to the Past Museum, and it is a trilobite dated to Carboniferous, and belong to the genus Carniphillipsia ogivalis Thank you Romano! | |
| Saturday, May 1, 2010 | |
| Beautiful Middle Cambrian Olenoides inflatus from the Marjum Fm. (Millard County, Utah) and a peculiar Silurian Spathacalymene nasuta from the Osgood Fm of Indiana, are now part of the museum gallery. | |
| Monday, April 12, 2010 | |
| New trilobites are added in the On-line shop. Don't miss these new specimens! | |
| Saturday, April 10, 2010 | |
| We would like to deeply thank Chris Jenkins and Chris News to have donated to the museum and exceptional Bathyuriscus rotundatus from the Cambrian of Burgess Shale and a Wanneria sp. from the Eager Fm. respectively. Thank you again to improve the quality and number of trilobites in the Back to the Past Museum. | |
| Monday, January 25, 2010 | |
Here is a short curriculum to present Richard to our visitors: Richard A. Robison is presently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas. Many of his scientific publications concern Cambrian paleontology, with an emphasis on trilobites. Previous positions and activities include Curator of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution, Professor of Geology at the University of Utah, Gulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor and Director of the Paleontological Institute at the University of Kansas, and Editor of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. An hearty welcome Richard! | |
| Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | |
In this specimen are visible trilobites (Calymene breviceps, search for this specimen name in the gallery section to have a look at the slab), briozoarians, brachiopods, gastropods and crinoids very well conserved and partially covered with an aesthetic patina of pyrite (iron sulfur). | |
| Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | |
| Just to remember that only 40 of our trilobite book (Italian version) are available now. I would like to thank all the non-Italian speaking trilobite collectors that have acquired the book in confidence and send us very positive (see enthusiast) feedback. We are working hard for the English version but probably it will be available only during the month of January, so if you want to send a gift for Christmas, choose this unique first release. | |
| Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | |
| Three new trilobites from Sweden are added in the On-line store section. A wonderful Asaphus expansus and Illaenus sarsi coming from the Ordovician of the Ljungsbro locality and a very rare Calymene tubercolata from the Hemse Marls layers of Middle Silurian of the Gotland Island. This last is exceptionally conserved into an Orthoceratid fragmocone. | |
| Friday, November 13, 2009 | |
Complete specimen... never seen before! | |
| Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | |
| Saturday, September 19, 2009 | |
This is the Italian version, available in limited edition and numbers of copies. The price fixed is 67€ (without postal charges). If interested contact us clicking on the "Contact-us" menu. Don't miss it! Also if in foreign language for most of you (but very well understandable for Latin language speakers), the text is very well illustrated and images are "without international borders". Enjoy! The 200 copies of this version (Italian language) are definitively sell out, and aren't previewed reprints in future. Thank you very much for all the people that had believed in our first book! | |
| Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | |
Thanks to our "magic fingers" Dave Comfort for the excellent job! You can have a better look in the gallery under the name Norwoodia plate. Enjoy. | |
| Thursday, July 30, 2009 | |
| We have planned to start to print a limited number of copies (200) in Italian version of our Trilobite book in next weeks. Contact us if you are interested to reserve a copy of this unique limited edition. At today (30/07/2009) 20 copies are "locked". The price proposed is 67€. The copies will be ready (probably, function of the holidays of the printer services) starting from the month of September. English version will be available probably before Christmas. The BackToThePast team | |
| Monday, July 13, 2009 | |
| Monday, July 13, 2009 | |
Just to give you a little preview, there are 450 pages, full of colored trilobite pictures, detailed description of morphology palaeoecology, distribution, origins, and more than 600 different species are recorded (pictures, reconstructions and citations). In the little QuickLook is show the future coverage of the "Opus Magnum". You can from now start to reserve a copy if you don't want to miss this excellent book. Fill and send the form without obligation, this will help us to know about how may people are interested in this work. We'll contact you personally when the book will be out! PS: Also if the coverage show here is in Italian, the book is in English language (not mine!); the Italian version will be available next year, after the publication of this volume. | |
| Friday, April 24, 2009 | |
| Friday, April 24, 2009 | |
| New trilobites Weeksina unispina, Lonchocephalus plena and a stunning plate with a beautiful green grasping (anomalocaridid?) from the Weeks Formation are added in the Trilobite On-Line store section. | |
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 | |
| Friday, April 10, 2009 | |
| Ceraurus globulobatus from the middle Ordovician Bobcaygeon Formation (Ontario, Canada) and a rarest Bristolia insolens from the lower Cambrian of the Carrara Formation (California), are added to the gallery. | |
| Thursday, April 9, 2009 | |
| このサイトで売られている三葉虫の化石は100パーセントオリジナルで、専門家（例えば Dave
Comfort デーヴ コンフォート氏など）によって修復されたり、手を加えられたりしたものではありません。 新たに制定された法律によって、アメリカ国内での化石の収穫が制限されてしまったこと、そして抽出地(House Range, Weeks Fm)の最終的な閉鎖により、これらが、自由に入手できる最後の化石となります。ぜひこの機会にご入手ください。 ご質問等がおありの場合は、遠慮なく私どもにお問い合わせください。また、「Curators」のページにて、私どもについてさらにお知らせいたしていますので、そちらの方もご覧ください。 | |
| Sunday, March 29, 2009 | |
Beautiful, complete and with a long terminal spine. 10cm (3.9inch) in lenght. | |
| Sunday, March 29, 2009 | |
| Dear all, the creation of the Museum Catalog Book take longer than previewed. Be patient. We would like to assure you that this (really) beautiful book will be available during the year 2009. I'll try to do the best to finalize before the end of this spring... Thank you to be patient.... Enrico & the BackToThePast team. | |
| Thursday, March 19, 2009 | |
16cm (6.3inch) of trilobite! | |
| Monday, March 9, 2009 | |
| Olenellus terminatus and Olenellus gilberti from the lower Cambrian of Carrara Formation, Nevada, are added in the museum Gallery. Don't miss it! | |
| Monday, March 9, 2009 | |
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 | |
| MANY rare and excellent trilobites are added in the Trilobite online store. Curious? Here are some names: Gerospina shachti, Norwoodia bellaspina, Tricepicephalus coria, Geveneviella granulatus, Densonella semele, Coosella sp. type2 (all from the Middle Cambrian weeks Formation) and Nunnaspis stitti, Wanneria sp., Cernuolimbus cf. pegakanthodes and many more... | |
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 | |
This genus comes from the Spence Shale member, Middle Cambrian, of the Langston Formation, UTAH, USA. This is the first complete specimen coming from this worldwide Lagerstätten site. It measures 0.78 inch = 2 cm. | |
| Friday, February 13, 2009 | |
Excellent similar specimen, conserved into an Orthoceratid internal mold, is visible in the gallery section. | |
| Friday, February 13, 2009 | |
| Sunday, February 1, 2009 | |
| Various Olenellus and Bristolia trilobite genus from Pioche Shale Fm added to the gallery. | |
| Thursday, January 29, 2009 | |
| The online store is finally open. More items will be available in next weeks. We are present in Tucson with many of our wonderful posters with Jake Skabelund American Trilobite Suppliers Inc. stand. at the InnSuites Hotel, room 224, 475 North Granada Avenue. | |
| Saturday, January 24, 2009 | |
See at the address: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/paleonet/ | |
| Monday, January 19, 2009 | |
Undescribed trilobite with appendages. | |
| Monday, January 19, 2009 | |
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| Saturday, January 10, 2009 | |
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| Monday, December 22, 2008 | |