30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France Gerastos Beautiful detailed specimen of this

Beautiful detailed specimen of this rare species of the family Acastidae

kamacite rich in Si and schreibersite are present

It is naturally pyritized

Environments: carbonate (all collections)

Specifically it is the species Notidanodon loozi (Vincent

30123 - Rare 0.48 Inch Colpocoryphe Middle Ordovician Trilobite - France Gerastos Beautiful detailed specimen of thisColpocoryphe, Novak and Perner 1918 (trilobite) Trilobita Phacopida Calymenidae PaleoDB taxon number: 21499 Parent taxon: Colpocoryphinae according to C. R. Congreve and B. S. Lieberman 2008 See also Dean 1983, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002 Sister taxon: Plaesiacomia Subtaxa: Colpocoryphe adisol, Colpocoryphe arago, Colpocoryphe grandis, Colpocoryphe inopinata, Colpocoryphe rouaulti View classification Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore