Description
A wonderful Trilobite from the famous site in Hamburg New York. It is an Eldredgeops that is fully prone on a shale matrix block.
Here is a great example of the creatures coming from this classic and well known site. The fossils from this location exhibit outstanding detail right down to the eye facets and bumps on the head section. They normally are preserved with a rich black color on a dark gray or gray matrix. Many from this site are also preserved with outstanding thick bodies that make these animals very showy. But also there are many corals on this piece.
The Eldredgeops Fossil Trilobite had the ability to enroll to protect from danger. Many of the trilobites found at Penn Dixie are enrolled but this one is beautifully prone. Because the body segments were able to move trilobites were able to roll up into a ball. This protected them from storms and predators. Because New York was once a tropical sea near the equator it had storms. But some of the storms were so violent that the trilobite could also roll to protect from them.
The Eldredgeops Fossil trilobite is 3/4 of an inch long. The Matrix is a roughly rectangular gray matrix 3 by 4 3/4.
A classic trilobite from a classic site.
