Cambropallas Tellesto Trilobite In Bronze Stand 410mm

Cambropallas Tellesto Trilobite In Bronze Stand 410mmA medium sized and particularly nice coloured Cambropallas tellesto trilobite positive and negative fossil plate measuring 410mm including the bronze stand. This piece is of a very fine quality displaying great preservation throughout the plates, perfectly separated along the natural seam line of Iron oxide mineral concentrations, usually a red to brown and sometimes orange colour, affected by the iron oxide limonite. Iron oxide was concentrated along

A medium-sized and particularly nice coloured Cambropallas tellesto trilobite positive and negative fossil plate measuring 410mm including the bronze stand. This piece is of a very fine quality displaying great preservation throughout the plates, perfectly separated along the natural seam-line of Iron oxide mineral concentrations, usually a red to brown and sometimes orange colour, affected by the iron oxide limonite. Iron oxide was concentrated along the cephalic margins, the thoracic and pygidia pleural spines, and at the articulating lobes of the thorax. These areas of the carapace (exoskeleton) were characterised by a fold named the doublure.

The three-dimensional exoskeleton of the arthropod displays every segment of the thorax, the cephalon (head) and the pygidium (tail). The axis lobe running the length of the body from the cephalon to the pygidium is raised in a dorsal keel fashion, the eye covers clearly protrude up from the cephalon, each plural lobe complete and very well defined down to the pygidium.

Topical Note: This type of Moroccan trilobite plate is susceptible to forgery by unscrupulous Moroccan sellers, these copies are prolific in the fossil marketplace in Africa and the rest of the world. Because of the nature of the limestone, which is very forgiving, replicas cast from original fossil trilobites have been manufactured in the past. Also, pieces of partially surviving trilobites are stuck together to appear as one original repaired trilobite, covered with reddish iron powder, excavated from the originating fossil beds concealing any break-lines when the reconstructed pizza style plates are built up. A competent reconstruction can be challenging to detect to the layperson. Every fossil from our website thefossilstore.com comes with a firm guarantee of authenticity which can be verified.

STAT

Order: Redlichiida described by Richter, 1932
Genus: Cambropallas tellesto, described by Geyer 1993 [Andalusiana]
Class: Phylum Arthropoda, Class Trilobita, Order Redlichiida, Holmiidae
Age: Paleozoic, Middle Cambrian, 513 - 501 million yrs
Origin: Jbel Wawrmast, Anti Atlas Mtn, N. Sahara desert, Morocco, NWA

Cambropallas CM: H: 33.0 / W: 26.0 / D: 3.0 / KG: 10.023
In stand CM: H: 41.0 / W: 26.0 / D: 10.0