Description

Olenellus gilberti
Trilobite
Middle Cambrian
Pioche Formation: C-Shale
Pioche, Lincoln County, Nevada, USA

Fair 0.9 inch body only.

Arthropod.

Olenellus is a genus of trilobite that lived only during the Early Cambrian and is known from various localities across North America.  It had a rather flat body.

This is a good, affordable specimen for a beginner collector or someone putting together a display of California fossils for a school science project.