Description
Elrathia kingii Trilobite
- Elrathia kingii
- Middle Cambrian Age
- Wheeler Shale
- Millard County, Utah
- Each specimen in this group measures approx. .60″ – .70″ and is in it’s natural matrix
- This specimen had not molted prior to being entombed in the sediments and fossilized. As a result it retains it’s free-cheeks
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This is the most familiar as well as abundant trilobite in North America. However it occurs at only a few localities in the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation of Utah. In addition to this these trilobites are roughly 500 million years old. .