Name: Peachella
brevasina (after Palmer)
Trilobita,
Trilobite Order Redlichiida,
Suborder Olenellina, Family Olenellidae
Geologic
Time: Late, Lower Cambrian
Size: 35
mm on 55 by 45 matrix
Fossil Site:
Cararra Formation, Echo Shale Member, Immigrant Pass, Nopah Range, Inyo
County, California
| Peachella
brevasina is not only exceedingly rare, with but one or two ever on the market,
it has an exceeding bazzar morphology, as the pictures will attest. The Lower
Cambrian was a time that most trilobites had yet through natural selection to
acquire truly unusual features, but Peachella seems the exception. Particularly
different are the genal and axial spines, and the rather bulbous cephalon. This
Peachella is only known to come from a legendary site in Immigrant Pass in California. |
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