My Trilobite Collection

Trilobites are more than 300 million years old.  They were creatures similar to the horseshoe crabs of today and they once filled our oceans.  They are known to us only as fossils.  Here you will find some of my favorite trilobites in my collection listed in alphabetical order by genus.  I have listed some basic information about each specimen.  The background picture you see here is a trilobite wood-burning I created as part of a design on the door to my den.  Click here to see the whole woodburned door.  Pysanky is the Ukrainian art of dyeing eggs.  Click here to see the ostrich egg pysanka I made with a trilobite design.  To learn more about trilobites in general, click here to visit an informative website.

Trilobite Quick-links:

Click on each thumbnail to see a larger view.

This photo shows many of my trilobites displayed together.

Individual Specimens:

Agnostus interstrictus (White), 1/4 inch long Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale, Millard County, Utah

Asaphus delphinus, 4.2 and 4.3 inches long Russia

Asaphus kotlukovi with spherical cystoid, 4 inches long Middle Ordovican Asery level Volchow plateau near St. Petersburg, Russia

Asaphus kowalewski, 3.4 inches long not including eyestalks Middle Ordovican Volchow plateau near St. Petersburg, Russia

Asaphus kowalewski, 2.3 and 1.5 inches long not including eyestalks Middle Ordovican Volchow plateau near St. Petersburg, Russia

Asaphus lepidurus, about 2 inches long, with accompanying brachiopod Kunda level, Arenigian horizon Lower Ordovican Wolchow river

Calyptaulax calicephalus (two heads visible, one on each side of the matrix) Matrix corner measures 1 3/4" X 1 1/2" Middle Ordovican of the Lake Simcoe Area Middle level of the Verulam Layer of the James Dick Quarry Gamebridge, Ontario, Canada, 2008

Cybele panderi, 2.9 inches not including eyestalks Middle Ordovican Volchow river region near St. Petersburg, Russia

Cyphaspis Devonian (350-395 million years ago) Morocco

Drotops Morocco

Flexicalymene retorsa terminal-molt trilobite with trepostome bryozoan Upper Ordovican Cincinnatian series Dillsboro Formation in Franklin Co., Indiana Photography and information below courtesy of Jerry Rush Click to read more about this amazing specimen.

Flexicalymene retorsa, prone one is 1 1/8 inches long Mt. Orab, Ohio

Flexicalymene senaria (two specimens, top is 5/8" wide and bottom is 3/4" wide) Middle Ordovican of the Lake Simcoe Area Upper level of the Verulam Layer of the James Dick Quarry Gamebridge, Ontario, Canada, 2008

Hoplolichas furcifer, 2.2 inches long Ordovican St. Petersburg, Russia

Huntonia? Oklahoma?

Illaenus ladogensis with cystoid Ordovican Russia

Illaenus tauricornus, 2.5 inches long Middle Ordovican Asery Level Wolhow River near St. Petersburg, Russia

Metacanthina issoumourensis, outstretched example is 1.4 inches long Devonian (350-395 million years ago) AM Limestone in Morocco

Paradoxides, 3 specimens, each about 10 inches long

Paralejurus Devonian (350-395 million years ago) Alnif, Southeast of Morocco

Phacops? My dad gave this one to me when I was young.  It is the catalyst that inspired the collection.

Remopleurides Middle Ordovican Asery level Wolhow River near St. Petersburg, Russia photography by J. Kaste, geologist

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