TRILOBITE (DELIGHTFUL TINY EXAMPLE) - 450 million years old - Builth Wells, Wales
« backFOSSIL TRILOBITE
450 million years old
Ordovician period
Builth Wells, Wales
A delightful little trilobite from Wales. Presented in a gemstone display box with a glass lid. A lovely little specimen!
It is from Ordovician rocks exposed in a quarry at Gilwern Hill, near Builth Wells in mid Wales.
Trilobites, an extinct class of marine animals, are the oldest of all the familiar fossils. They flourished in the seas during the Ordovician period, an early division of geological time.
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Trilobites, an extinct class of marine animals, are the oldest of all the familiar fossils. They flourished in the seas during the Ordovician period, an early division of geological time.
Click on a picture for a larger image
Size: 5 x 5 x 2 centimetres (size of box)
(trilobite 1.3 centimetres long)
Weight: 34 grams (including box)
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