3.3" Flying Crotalocephalina Trilobite with Enrolled Reedops

Flying Crotalocephalina Trilobite with Enrolled Reedops #276398

This is a stunning association of a beautiful, 3.3" long Crotalocephalina gibbus trilobite, a pair of enrolled Reedops trilobites as well as some other trilobite pieces. The good-sized Crotalocephalina has been prepared by removing all of the hard limestone surrounding it, leaving flying on a pedestal of rock. A really impressive display piece with less than 1% restoration.

Trilobites were a very diverse group of extinct marine arthropods. They first appeared in the fossil record in the Early Cambrian (521 million years ago) and went extinct during the Permian mass extinction (250 million years ago). They were one of the most successful of the early animals on our planet: over 25,000 species have been described, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to their hard exoskeletons (shells), they left an excellent fossil record.

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