일반명(Common name) : 포르투갈삼엽충(Trilobite Fossils from Portugal)

학명(Scientific Name) : Eodalmanitina destombesi

지질시대(Geological Time) : 고생대오르도비스기(Middle Ordovician,464 Million years old)

발견지(Fossil Site) : Valongo Formation , Villa de Rei, Portugal

Size of trilobite : 53mm long(155 x 105mm Matrix)

Trilobites Order : Phacopida,

Superfamily : Dalmanitoidea,

Family : Dalmanitidae

Description : This genus is from the order Phacopida -Dalmanitoidea – Dalmanitidae. This is a classic type specimen showing the compression and distortion typical of Valongo trilobites. It has a ghostly appearance, but is otherwise in a good state of preservation. This one has the rarely preserved tail spine in place. It has one well preserved eye intact. The plate was cracked and repaired. There is another large partial specimen of Eodalmantinia resting aesthetically to the right side of the primary specimen.