![]() Please bring a container to transport your fossils home. Remember to bring plenty of food and water. It is adviseable to bring a pair of gloves (garden gloves are sufficient), safety glasses and a light jacket in the event there is a change of weather. We spoke with Shayne Crapo who runs the U-Dig Fossils quarry. The Bug House isn’t just about trilobites, in fact, their bigger business is in two beautiful crystal specimens: Septarian nodules and Dugway geodes. After Loy passed away, his widow, sons, daughters, and their families continued the Bug House business and do so until today. For the next 12 years of so, Loy Crapo, whose business is called The Bug House, supplied us with a variety of Elrathia kingii fossils of various sizes and levels of completion. We met and worked with the patriarch of the family in 2005. The Crapo family runs the U-Dig Fossil Site. We recommend you keep an eye on the temperatures, because this is the desert and by late morning temperatures can be brutal. We arrived at the quarry late in the morning on what was a pretty hot summer day. To be fair, we didn’t spend much time splitting rocks. On the day we visited, several really nice whole trilobites were found…but not by us. It’s fairly common to find pieces of incomplete trilobites. When you arrive at the quarry, you’re handed a bucket and a hammer to help gently tap on the shale to split the layers. This species, the Elrathia Kingii, shows up between layers of the shale. Trilobites were prolific inhabitants of the Cambrian seas that covered the planet. The quarry is literally acres of Wheeler Shale, laid down during the Cambrian Period approximately 507 million years ago. U-Dig Fossils near Delta, Utah in western Millard County. How’d you like to split an ordinary-looking gray rock and find this beauty? You can at
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