Selenocoryphe
platyura
Trilobites
Order Ptychopariida, Family Uncertain
Geologic
Time: Upper Middle Cambrian
Size: 32
mm
Fossil
Site: Weeks Formation, House Range, Millard County, Utah
This
trilobite is a veryu rare species known as Selenocoryphe platyura
that derives its name from the word for “wide-tailed”,
referring to the broad pygidium. Only a handful of specimens are
known, and few match this one is size and preservation. Selenocoryphe
is thought to be related to Acanthocephalus, but its precise familial
assignment has as yet not been made.
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