Eldredgeia eocryphaea


Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Trilobita
Order
Phacopida
Suborder
Phacopina
Superfamily
Acastoidea
Family
Calmoniidae
Binomial Name
Eldredgeia eocryphaea
(= Eldredgeia eocryphaeus )
Formation
Belen Formation
Locale
Calamarca (La Paz) Bolivian Altiplano
Age
Early Devonian
Notes

This is a no-prep bug, they crack open a concretion and if they're lucky they find a complete trilobite.

The paper that describes this trilobite gives the species name as E. eocryphaeus but the spelling listed in the systematic paleontology is Eldredgeia eocryphaea.


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Eldredgeia eocryphaea


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Eldredgeia eocryphaea dorsolateral view


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