Radiodont endite

The specimen in the post captures the stunning contrast of its dark, finely textured exoskeleton against the light, reddish-brown limestone matrix. This beautiful trilobite offers a rare glimpse into a moment in time over half a billion years ago. Found in Utah's Fossil-Rich Weeks Formation This location is a Konservat-Lagerstätte, a rare fossil site preserving both hard-shelled and delicate, soft-bodied organisms. The trilobites were likely buried rapidly by a storm or high-salinity event in a shallow sub-tidal environment, perfectly preserving them for us to find today.

The Weeks Formation is located in the central House Range of western Utah. Its stratigraphic position is:

• It conformably overlies the Marjum Formation
• It is conformably overlain by the Orr Formation

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Weeks Formation