07161 - Top Rare Lichid Trilobite 0.71 Inch Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) bassei Lower Devonian Leonaspis Nascimento and Zaher 2011

Nascimento and Zaher 2011

the teeth that are extracted from the depth of the mines are usually much better preserved

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

a species quite abundant in the phosphate quarries of the Ouled Abdoun Basin

Under binocular loupes you can even see the eyes and wing details

07161 - Top Rare Lichid Trilobite 0.71 Inch Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) bassei Lower Devonian Leonaspis Nascimento and Zaher 2011Nice specimen of this rare species of Lichid trilobite. It has been carefully prepared during a long laboratory process. Acanthopyge is an extinct genus of lichid trilobite that lived during the Devonian. Acanthopyge, Hawle and Corda 1847 (trilobite) Trilobita Lichida Lichidae Parent taxon: Trochurinae according to J. R. Pollitt et al. 2005 See also Chatterton and Perry 1977, Ebach and Ahyong 2001, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomas and