CROTALOCEPHALUS TRILOBITE LAB PREPPED

Atlas Mountain Range (Northern Sahara Desert), South Morocco

DEVONIAN PERIOD:  395 - 345 million years ago

This is a superb and quite large example that has been carefully micro-blasted with state-of-the-art equipment to truly bring out the best in the specimen.  The detail is superb and the only restoration is a very minute tip (2 mm long) of one of the pygidial spines.  Otherwise, the entire creature is completely natural and exhibits the most beautiful dark black-olive hue, also natural.  Even the tip of the head (cephalon) shows tiny black spots that are inherent to the creature and were found this way as seen in the last photo.  Left side has some erosion, right side is choice!  Detail is found in this example that most could only hope for.  A recommended genuine specimen.

A bizarre and fascinating species, the Crotalocephalus (Crotalocephalina)  trilobite is an ugly yet, desirable addition to any collector's cabinet.  With it's fat, bulbous snout, tiny eyes and strange raised surfaces down its lobes, the Crotalocephalus is one of our personal favorites of all trilobites.

4.95" long and 2.25" wide with original matrix, creature is 3.5" in length

SOLD     TR1301L     INCLUDES STAND     Actual Item - One Only