Colorful Ordovician Trilobite Ogygiocarella

Orgygiocarella sp

Trilobites Order Asaphida, Family Asaphidae

Geological Time: Lower Ordovician, Llandeilo Series

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): Trilobite is 20 mm long by 13 mm wide on a 100 mm by 90 mm matrix

Fossil Site: Middleton Formation, Shropshire, United Kingdom

Code: MF49

Price: $95.00

Description: Well-preserved example of a member of the Order Asaphida, Family Asaphidae, known as Ogygiocarella. First described as a “flatfish” in Egland in 1698, this one was finally recognized as a new type of animal known as a trilobite some 70 years later. The fossil is replaced in granular chalcopyrite which results in this metallic sheen. See my other offerings for another trilobite from the region with similar preservation.

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