.95" Eldredgeops Trilobite Fossil - Hamburg, New York

Eldredgeops Trilobite Fossil - Hamburg, New York #188826

This is a .95" long, Eldredgeops trilobite from the Windom Shale of New York. It was cleaned with air abrasives and left partially embedded in the rock it was found in. Great eye facet preservation. The tail appears to be folded underneath the trilobite.

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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