Freestanding SPINES ON SPINES - MASTERPIECE Koneprusia dahmani Fossil Trilobite (3,6 cm)

SHIPPING FROM PORTUGAL WITH TRACKING NUMBER Restoration details: No restoration, except residual cracks on exoskeleton and matrix, as usual. . Astonishing museum-grade specimen. Long spines, secondary micro spines everywhere on pleural and pygidial spines, micro spines on glabella, huge size. Amazing freestanding display, showing the beautiful natural Oufaten's mountain matrix colour. A lot of reasons to admire this "living thorn bush" from the Devonian seas. All the secondary spines have been prepared individually in a laborious work of dozens of hours. No painting, shadowing or compositions with other Koneprusia (or other Odontopleurids) spines tips. A museum-grade specimen. Dimensions: Specimen: 3,6 x 3,0 cm; Matrix: 10,0 x 7,3 cm. Finding locality: Jbel Oufaten, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Taxonomy: Species: Koneprusia dahmani; Family: Odontopleuridae; Order: Odontopleurida; Class: Trilobita. Geological period: Devonian, from Paleozoic Era.