Cambropallas Telesto Fossil Trilobite

10.5"/265mm Length
approximately

Post Free mainland UK

Description

This Fine Cambropallas Telesto Genus Trilobite, Limestone split nodule stone forming positive and negative halves of one Lower Cambrian Arthropod.

Condition Report

exhibiting the finest complete preservation and condition, positive plate shows excellent detail to the cephalon[head], and eye area, with the thorax [body], protruding, exposing its full body anatomy in surrounding matrix/bedrock. Partial Negative plate also shows great detail with iron red dusted colour to both- completely natural,

Location

Jbel Wawrmast Formation, Atlas Mountains, Western Sahara desert, Morocco, North Africa Extremely attractive and unique to this region. large example of this Cambropallas, although in recent years this trilobite genus was a more common type, times are changing and it is increasingly more difficult to discover complete, good and well preserved specimens like this example.

Extraction Note Update

Commonly Trilobite Fossils for sale today, often suffer damage or are broken during the excavation process. Fossil beds today in Morocco are becoming much deeper, causing the extraction process to be more difficult. Particularly in farther a field sites. We have visited these sites high in the Atlas Ranges of Morocco, where only hand tools are used to painstakingly extract fossils.

Understandably, to discover fossil specimens, of a high preservation is an astonishing event, especially specimens of a good size, usually the smaller the fossil specimen the more chance of better preservation the larger specimens are more susceptible to crushing and damage through bedding plain movement over the eons and continuous environmental change and plate shifting, beds collapsing, and possible flooding , destroying fossil beds altogether, many factors contribute to the fossils condition on extraction and the post Lab preparation.

Prepared in our Lab

Genus

Cambropallas Telesto Trilobite sp.

Other Nomenclature

Cambro-pallas, Andalusiana Trilobite sp.

Location

Jbel Wawrmast Formation, Anti-Atlas Mountain Region, Northern Sahara Desert, Morocco

Geological Age

Palaeozoic Era, Lower Cambrian Period 550 mya