1.4" Niobella Lindstroemi Trilobite - Rare Species

Niobella Lindstroemi Trilobite - Rare Species #78543

This is a beautiful, 1.4" long, prone example of a rare Ordovician trilobite from the Putilovo Quarry. It's a Niobella lindstroemi, with very nice preservation. There is only some very minor restoration on two pleural tips on the right hand side.

Trilobites were a very diverse group of extinct marine arthropods. They first appeared in the fossil record in the Early Cambrian (521 million years ago) and went extinct during the Permian mass extinction (250 million years ago). They were one of the most successful of the early animals on our planet: over 25,000 species have been described, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to their hard exoskeletons (shells), they left an excellent fossil record.

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