THE FOSSIL STORE AES | Brass series brings you a positive and negative Cambropallas tellesto geode measuring 320mm, now transformed with our elegant innovated-designed AES | Brass stands for spaces out there!

This extraordinary specimen offers a positive and negative example of the well renowned and exotic Cambropallas tellesto trilobite.

Iron oxide concentrations have allowed for such a wondrous result of colour pallettes here, due to iron oxide limonite within the limestone, these minerals have been absorbed for many millennia, concentrated along the cephalic margins, thoracic and pygidial pleural spines and articulating lobes of the thorax - all these areas of the carapace or exoskeleton were characterized by a tight fold called the doublure.

The three-dimensional exoskeleton of the arthropod displays every segment of the thorax; the cephalon (head) and pygidium (tail). The axis lobe runs the length of the body from the cephalon to the pygidium, which stands up elegantly at the tail-end, the eye covers protrude up from cephalon - this is a wonderful example, where each plural lobe is complete and very well defined right down to the pygidium.

The details

Genus: Cambropallas tellesto described by Geyer 1993 [Andalusiana].
Order: Redlichiida described by Richter, 1932.
Classification: Phylum Arthropoda, Trilobita, Family Holmiidae.
Age: Paleozoic, Middle Cambrian, 513,000,000 - 501,000,000 years.
Origin: Tarhoucht section, Jbel Wawrmast formation, Jbel Ougnate, N. Sahara, Morocco.

Cambropallas:

H: L: 19.5 CM  |  R: 19 CM
W: L: 14 CM  |  R: 14 CM
D: L: NA CM  |  R: NA CM

In stand

H: L: 26 CM  |  R: 26.5 CM
W: L: 22 CM  |  R: 22 CM
D: L: 1.5 CM  |  R: 1.5 CM

KG: Pair of Cambropallas: 3.786 KG  |  In Stands: 4.861 KG