30601 - Top Huge Spiny 4.26 Inch Drotops armatus Middle Devonian Trilobite Kettneraspis aracana Under petrographic microscope

Under petrographic microscope

Sternberg 1821

Fischer 1966

• Devonian of Australia (2)

Environments: offshore

30601 - Top Huge Spiny 4.26 Inch Drotops armatus Middle Devonian Trilobite Kettneraspis aracana Under petrographic microscopePrecious specimen of this enormous species of spiny triolobite. This trilobite has been prepared carefully, during many hours of work. It has several restored fractures. Most of the spines have been restored. Very old preparation. Drotops is a genus of trilobites from the order Phacopida, family Phacopidae that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle Devonian. It was described by Struve in 1990 under type species Drotops megalomanicus. Their fossils