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Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)

Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)
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Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)
Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)
Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)
Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)
Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)
Cornuproetus cornutus (GOLDFUSS, 1843)

Products description

Here is a Eifel Trilobite of the species Cornuproetus cornutus from the classical site of the  Pelm-Salmer Weg near Gees.  The Trilobites is in last quarter strongly disarticulated but it ofers anyway a good preservation.  It is a interesting question what can course such a unusual distortion on Trilobite.
 Cornuproetus cornutus is the type species for the genus Cornuproetus abd the Pelm Salmer Weg near Gees is the locus typicus of the species.
 

Location:

Pelm- Salmer Weg, Gees , Eifel Region, Germany
Size Trilobite: about 22 mm long
Age:Middle Devonian, Eifilium, Ahrdorf fm. (Ca. 430 Mill. Years)

Product no.: 6599