Super quality! Rare Russian trilobite

일반명(Common name) : Rare Russian trilobite Cybele panderi

학명(Scientific Name) : Cybele panderi SCHMIDT 1907)

지질시대(Geological Time) : 고생대오르도비스기(Middle Ordovician 500 Million years old)

발견지(Location) : Asery Horizon, Wolchow River Region, St Petersburg, Russia

Size of trilobite : 50mm long(90 x 60mm Matrix

Division Name

Phylum : Arthropoda

Class : Trilobita

Order : Phacopida

Suborder : Cheirurina

Superfamily : Cheiruroidea

Family : Encrinuridae

Genus : Cybelella

Description: Coming from the Middle Ordovician Asery Level deposits of the Wolchow River region near Saint Petersburg, Russia, this is an example of the dramatic trilobite Cybele panderi. The taxon is defined by the three cephalic projections, distinguishing it from Cybele bellatula which it strongly resembles. The well-known student of trilobites Riccard Levi-Setti referred to trilobites as the butterflies of the sea, an appropriate apellation for such a dramatic example. The trilobite itself is 1.4 inches long from the tips of the delicate eyestalks to the ends of the pleural spines and 0.9 inches wide at the freestanding genal spines. Its deep caramel-colored Calcite shell is well set off by the white limestone matrix. As always, the skillful Russian preparators have shown this fine prone specimen to best advantage, well-centered on its 4.5 inch by 1.4 inch matrix which has another flattened edge for an alternate display mode (I prefer this pose, myself). This is a fine example of a taxon very rarely available at such a reasonable cost.