Name: Asaphus
latus (Asaphid Russian Trilobites)
Age: Middle Ordovician
Size: mm (25.4mm=1
inch): 76 on 180 x 140 matirx
Location:
Asery level, St. Petersburg region, Wolchow
River, Russia
| Asaphus
latus is among the scarcer trilobites in the Russian Asaphid series.
Having a greater breadth to length ratio than its cousins, it is likely
descended from Asaphus holmi. This large speciman is stretched and
inflated on an unusually large piece of Ordovician seafloor. |
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