Name: Dechenella burmeisteri (Trilobite) Order Proetida, Family Proetidae
Age: Devonian
Size: (25.4mm=1 inch): 38 mm long by 25 mm wide on a 100 by 57 mm matrix
Location: Hamar Laghdad Formation, Djebel Issoumour, Alnif , Morocco
Code: 0204
Price: $250.00 - sold
 Description:
A fine example of a member of the Order Proetida, Family Proetidae,
this is a rarely offered example of the Order known as Dechenella
burmeisteri. At 38 mm in length, it is near the top end in size for
the taxon. It is thought that this one may have lain just at or below
the surface of the seafloor, with its broad cephalon serving to keep
it stable while searching for a meal in the Devonian seas. The Proetidae
were among the last of the trilobites to go extinct in the Permian
over 100 million years later. |
