Cambropallas Telesto Trilobite Fossil

9inches/23cm long x 7hlf inches/19cm wide

Weight
3Kg

Approximately

Post Free Mainland UK

Description

Excellent Positive and Negative Cambropallas Telesto Trilobite, other nomenclature Andalusiana Cambropallas, A split nodule limestone forming the positive and negative impression of the once living large and classic Arthropod.

Condition Report

good example, with prominent thorax segments and spines, the cephalon [head], has some distortion due to crushing in the fossil bed however good detail around the eye area. malformation during the fossilization process, but this is to be expected from these fossil beds today as the beds deepen. This specimen is of good size and detail, on surrounding limestone bedrock.

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