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Olenellus sp.

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SKU Number: SQ6222463

A beautiful 3.5cm Olenellus sp. trilobite from the 500 million year old Lower Cambrian (stage 4), Pyramid Shale, Delamar Expanse, Lincoln County, Nevada.

This trilobite features a narrow thorax, but wide bulbous cephalon as well as a long telson. This trilobite has no preparation and is exactly as it was found in the field. 


Full dimensions are listed below.

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Vendor: Fossil Soup

SKU Number: SQ6222463

A beautiful 3.5cm Olenellus sp. trilobite from the 500 million year old Lower Cambrian (stage 4), Pyramid Shale, Delamar Expanse, Lincoln County, Nevada.

This trilobite features a narrow thorax, but wide bulbous cephalon as well as a long telson. This trilobite has no preparation and is exactly as it was found in the field. 


Full dimensions are listed below.

Vendor: Fossil Soup

SKU Number: SQ6222463

A beautiful 3.5cm Olenellus sp. trilobite from the 500 million year old Lower Cambrian (stage 4), Pyramid Shale, Delamar Expanse, Lincoln County, Nevada.

This trilobite features a narrow thorax, but wide bulbous cephalon as well as a long telson. This trilobite has no preparation and is exactly as it was found in the field. 


Full dimensions are listed below.

Specimen Details
Species Name: Olenellus sp. Order / Family: Redlichiida / Olenellidae Age: Lower Cambrian (stage 4) Locality: Lincoln County, Nevada Formation: Pyramid Shale, Delamar Expanse
Matrix Dimensions
Dimensions: In Centimeters Length: 9.50 cm Width: 6.00 cm Height: 2.00 cm Weight: N/A
Specimen Dimensions
Dimensions: In Millimeters Length: 35.00 mm Width: 18.00 mm Height: Negligible Weight: N/A
Shipping Dimensions
Dimensions: In Inches Length: 10.00 inches Width: 7.00 inches Height: 4.0 inches Weight:
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Additional Information

The Pyramid Shale is an Early to Middle Cambrian Burgess shale-type Lagerstätte in Nevada that preserves arthropods and worms similar to the Burgess Shale.

In the Eureka area, the Pyramid shale has a variable lithologic character which is most commonly a greenish or grey, calcareous or micaceous shale which may locally be reddish or brown in color with abundant trilobite parts throughout the formation.

Description:

As with most early trilobites, Olenellus has an almost flat exoskeleton, that is only thinly calcified, and has crescent-shaped eye ridges. As part of the suborder Olenellina, Olenellus lacks dorsal sutures. Like all other members of the superfamily Olenelloide, the eye-ridges emerge from the back of the frontal lobe of the central area of the cephalon, that is called glabella. Olenellus also shares the typical character of whole family Olenellidae that the frontal and middle pair of lateral lobes of the glabella are partially merged. This creates two very typical, isolated slits. It can be distinguished from the other two genera in the family, Mesolenellus and Mesonacis, because the angle in the back rim of the cephalon is less than 15°, making the head approximately semi-circular. The genal spines are reaching back no further than the 6th thorax segment, making them 4-5 times as long as the most backward lobe of the glabella. The thorax is 4-4½ times wider that the axis, measured at the 3rd segment. The base of the spine on the 15th thorax segment is almost as wide as the axis itself.

References:

Pioche Shale
Olenellus Trilobites


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