Description
Bristolia bristolensis
Middle Cambrian
Latham Shale
Marble mountains
California, USA.
Bristolia bristolensis is an olenelloid trilobite that lived in early Cambrian shallow marine environments during a time of rapid evolutionary diversification known as the Cambrian explosion. These trilobites inhabited soft seafloors in warm, shallow seas and are important index fossils for early Paleozoic stratigraphy.
Near complete 42mm trilobite on 108mm slab. Rare
