Hinckley resident Clay Holman operates the new fossil quarry. Holmani, this latest find, happened at a place called “A New Dig,” just up the road a stretch from a pretty famous old dig here called U-Dig. Scientists study these creatures not just for what they tell us about the explosion of complex life that took place 500 million years ago, but what their evolution tell us about our own origins. But study of these areas encompass all manner of ancient lifeforms, who’s imprint was left on science as silty ocean fl oor turned into limestone and shale with the passage of half a billion years. The term “trilobite” is most commonly associated with the multitude of life found in the fossil record from this time period, certainly Utah shale formations host a plethora of these three-lobed creatures. It was found in the Wheeler Formation of Millard County’s House Range, comparable to Canada’s Burgess Shale or China’s Qingjiang Fossil Bed in Hubei Province for world-class paleontology, fantastic fossil finds from when those areas were covered by primordial ocean. It’s defined by its “broad-based sagittal spines, none hypertrophied, and straight to rounded thoracic tergopleural tips,” according to a 2020 academic paper authored by a couple of Harvard University scholars. It’s a new species of Cambrian era ocean bug. Hinkcley man with Cambrian species named after him opens reservation-only fossil quarry
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