.65" Lloydolithus Trilobite - United Kingdom

This is a rarely seen Trinucleid (Lloydolithus lloydi) trilobite from the UK. It came out of an old collection we recently acquired so it's the only example of this species we have.

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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Lloydolithus lloydi
LOCATION
Betton, Shropshire, United Kingdom
FORMATION
Middleton Formation
SIZE
.65" wide, .5" long
ITEM
#115236
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