30292 - Well Prepared 1.43 Inch "Devil Horned" Cyphaspis walteri Devonian Trilobite Goniatites Infundibuloceras
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Description
Infundibuloceras
Phacopidae
78 apfu (atoms per formula unit)
Year fell: 2011
The sharp and intact tips are a preservation feature very difficult to find and therefore it is one of the characteristics which influences the most in the objective valuation of a specimen
30292 - Well Prepared 1.43 Inch "Devil Horned" Cyphaspis walteri Devonian Trilobite Goniatites InfundibulocerasExtremely beautiful specimen of this rare trilobite species. It has tiny restorations made on their shells during its meticulous and long preparation process. Cyphaspis is a genus of small trilobite that lived from the Late Ordovician to the Late Devonian. Fossils have been found in marine strata in what is now Europe, Africa and North America. Various species had a compact body, and a large, bulbous glabellum. Many species had long spines arranged