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KONEPRUSSIA TRILOBITE LAB PREPPED - Hamar Laghdad Formation - Erfoud, Morocco DEVONIAN PERIOD: 395 - 345 million years ago The Koneprussia trilobite looks like it was a living thorn bush. Its pleural spines even had spines on spines! This eerie creature certainly must have been a site to behold slowly inching its way across the ocean floor hundreds of millions of years ago. This stunning example comes from the Devonian limestone of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. If you are demanding only the finest, 'non-fabricated' spiny trilobite specimens in your collection then you should seriously consider this magnificent specimen. There is NO RESTORATION to any spines and there is only a small area on the right free cheek that required filling. The spines are repaired but are the ORIGINAL spines from this creature and each has been painstakingly freed from all the limestone matrix to display this bizarre creature as it was when alive. The carapace is wonderfully preserved and is a natural dark olive color. The limestone is a natural butter yellow hue and has been carefully prepared to a stunning smooth surface with the trilobite raised up off the rock. Prepared with the finest modern micro-abrasive equipment and countless hours of 'nerves of steel' skill, each spine is original and natural, unlike the vast majority of spiny trilobites where the spines are fabricated from putty and resin. This example is a top choice and represents the finest and rarest fossil Koneprussia, if not any spiny trilobite that can be found with GENUINE SPINES freed from their matrix. EXCEEDINGLY RARE TRILOBITE WITH ORIGINAL SPINES ALL FLOATING FREE OF MATRIX! 2.75" x 2.4" with original matrix, animal approximately 1.65" long SOLD TR36001 INCLUDES STAND Actual Item - One Only |
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