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Ditomopyge decurata

Ditomopyge decurata
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Ditomopyge decurata
Ditomopyge decurata

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Here is a rare example of an Proetid Trilobite from the Permian age of Kansas.
The order Proetida is the last surviving trilobite order at the end of the Palaeozoic epoch.
The Trilobites where quite even rare before they completely extinct, at mass extinction event on the end of the Permian age.
This even was quite even imported like event at the end of the Cretaceous age that was responsible for extinction of Dinosaurs.

 
 

Location:

Pike County, Missouri , USA 
Size trilobite:about 9 mm wide
Age:Upper Ordovician, Maquoketa Formation. (ca. 450 Mill. Years)

Product no.: 2947