07168 - Top Well Prepared 1.42 Inch Platyscutellum sp Lower Devonian Trilobite Agate The agates formed within air

The agates formed within air pockets of hardened lava

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It seems to have restored and filled parts

Permineralization is a process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms

Plagiolaria

07168 - Top Well Prepared 1.42 Inch Platyscutellum sp Lower Devonian Trilobite Agate The agates formed within airNice specimen of this lower Devonian trilobite species. The matrix has some fractures that have been glued together. It has been carefully prepared during a long laboratory process. Platyscutellum, Snajdr 1958 (trilobite) Trilobita Corynexochida Styginidae Parent taxon: Styginidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002 See also Sepkoski 2002 Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore Environments: marine, carbonate, open shallow subtidal, reef, buildup or