Paladin Carboniferous Russian Trilobite

Description: The Proetida comprised the last family of trilobite to survive into the Carboniferous, only to go extinct during the end-Permian extinction event. This cream-colored example is known as Paladin transilis. This genus was the most widespread of the Proetidae, both in a stratigraphic and geographic sense. This one comes from the Upper Carboniferous deposits of Russia, and is a near-complete example. There is a repair that cuts transversely at the central part of the thorax as a result of where the nodule entombing the specimen had been cracked open to find the specimen. As a consequence there is some restoration at that point, as well as some missing exoskeleton. Nevertheless, this is a fine example of the type, one that would easily fetch double the asking price here were it a pristine example.

Also see: Russian Trilobites