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Fossil Finds: Fleshy quarry fossils shed light on Wisconsin's watery past

By: Lorraine Boisoneault, Detroit Public Television

Ron Meyer and Jerry Gunderson had already spent decades collecting different items when they learned about the trilobites turning up in a quarry just outside Milwaukee in 1984. The two men, friends since childhood, took a trip to the active quarry site and spoke with the foreman about any fossils that might have been found. The foreman directed them to one corner of the site where the shelled trilobite fossils had turned up.

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