Lot 470
TRILOBITE WITH EYE STALKS. Some of the best preserved and most beautiful life-like trilobites come from Wolchow river streams near St. Petersburg, Russia. This exceptionally large outstretched 4.5 x 3 inch 450 million year old trilobite Asaphus kotlukovi is one of the largest found and has two strange extended eye stalks which would stick out of sea bottom when it buried itself to hunt prey animals and protect itself from predators. Also contained on the 9 x 6 inch natural limestone matrix are two strange echinoderms related to the starfish. These two, one-inch diameter balls were attached to the sea bottom with stems looking something like a round sea urchin on a stick. One of the specimens clearly displays the 5 fold symmetry of starfish with irregular hexagonal plates being visible in transparent calcite on the top of the ball. Just the huge Asaphus alone makes this very valuable to collectors but the addition of the echinoderms makes it a museum specimen.
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Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500.
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