Description

Olenellus clarki
Trilobite
Lower Cambrian
Latham Shale
Providence Mountains, California, USA

24mm part and counterpart on 122mm shale slab.

Olenellus is one of the earliest-known trilobite genera.  It lived only during the Early Cambrian.

Areas to legally collect fossils in California have become more restricted over the past thirty years, especially localities for hunting trilobites.  Here’s your chance to pick up what might be considered the classic California trilobite.