Rare Phacops rana norwoodensis Trilobite from Devonian Iowa

Phacops rana norwoodensis

Trilobites Order Phacopida, Family Phacopidae

Geological Time: Middle Devonian

Size (25.4mm=1 inch): 73 mm long (if straightened) by 25 mm wide on a 73 mm by 75 mm matrix

Fossil Site: Cedar Valley Formation, Johnson County, Iowa

Code: IT05

Price: $195.00 - sold

This is a very fine, 3-D enrolled examples of a trilobite rarely offered for sale, with few in such a pristine, undistorted shape. Enrollment was a defensive response to predators, and is the way these trilobites are most frequently found.

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