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Asteropyge sp. A RICHTER R. 1943

Asteropyge sp. A RICHTER R.  1943
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Asteropyge sp. A RICHTER R.  1943
Asteropyge sp. A RICHTER R.  1943
Asteropyge sp. A RICHTER R.  1943
Asteropyge sp. A RICHTER R.  1943

Products description

Here is a quite nice trilobite of the Genus Asteropyge from the devonian of Casablanca.
This trilobite was mentiond by Richter, 1943 under open nomenclature as 
Asteropyge sp. A. Today is this trilobite often labeled as “true”  Metacanthina barrandei or even as  “Hollardops barrandei”*.
(*The last is defiantly nonsense because Metacanthina barrandei is type species of its genus !)

 
 

Location:

Meseta Estde, Casablanca, notrh  Morocco 
Size:about 19 mm long
Age:Lower Devon, Eifilian, "Couvin stage" (about 390 Ma.)

Product no.: 7094