Greenops Grabaui
Vendor: Gold Bugs
SKU Number: SQ4364248
A complete prone Greenops grabaui from the Middle Devonian, Hamilton Group of Western New York. These trilobites have become increasingly difficult to acquire due to over-collecting and the loss of accessible sites to development and restrictive laws on collecting. This is a beautiful specimen with a beige color and a spotted camouflage patternation. The eyes have a nice dark color that contrasts against the rest of the cephalon. The ends of the genal, pleural and pygidial spines also have the same dark color as the eyes.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Vendor: Gold Bugs
SKU Number: SQ4364248
A complete prone Greenops grabaui from the Middle Devonian, Hamilton Group of Western New York. These trilobites have become increasingly difficult to acquire due to over-collecting and the loss of accessible sites to development and restrictive laws on collecting. This is a beautiful specimen with a beige color and a spotted camouflage patternation. The eyes have a nice dark color that contrasts against the rest of the cephalon. The ends of the genal, pleural and pygidial spines also have the same dark color as the eyes.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Vendor: Gold Bugs
SKU Number: SQ4364248
A complete prone Greenops grabaui from the Middle Devonian, Hamilton Group of Western New York. These trilobites have become increasingly difficult to acquire due to over-collecting and the loss of accessible sites to development and restrictive laws on collecting. This is a beautiful specimen with a beige color and a spotted camouflage patternation. The eyes have a nice dark color that contrasts against the rest of the cephalon. The ends of the genal, pleural and pygidial spines also have the same dark color as the eyes.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Additional Information
Greenops Grabaui
Greenops had schizocroidal eyes (resembling compound eyes in insects), large genal spines and short, sharp spines at the tip of each segment of the pygidium ("tail"). Greenops lived in warm, fairly deep water. In the Hamilton Group of New York, they are found with Eldredgeops, Dipleura and Bellacartwrightia, a trilobite that resembles Greenops but has much larger pygidial spines. In Ontario, they are found in the Widder Formation, which outcrops at Arkona, where they are, by far, the dominant trilobite.
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Colour Patterns in Devonian Trilobites
Ancient Trilobites Featured Spotted Camouflage
Greenops
