Lot 889
Bizarre Trilobite With Long Eye Stalks. Neoasaphus kowalewski was a very strange looking trilobite with extremely long eyestalks (over 1 inch) and must have looked like something from another planet as it crossed the warm ocean floor 450 million years ago in the Wolchow river near St. Petersburg, Russia. This strange trilobite would bury itself in the sand to hunt small prey animals and also protect itself from predators. This lovely complete brown trilobite is 3 inches long and is on the same 6 x 6 inch limestone matrix with another species of asaphus trilobite, but this did not have its eyes on eyestalks but it has an ornamented pattern on its tail (pygidium) which undoudtedly was several different colors when this trilobite was is also a two inch long pygidium from another trilobite that also exhibits this color pattern. This partially enrolled trilobite and tail section are a lighter beige color than the Neosaphus and make for both an esthetically pleasing as well as scientifically important specimen.
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Estimated Value $600 - 700.
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