ultra rare
trilobite
Trilobita
The tell
Three lobes running head to tail (that is what the name means) and clear segmentation across the body.
Most Michigan finds are a fragment: a tail plate or a head shield rather than a whole animal. Rockport and Alpena County; genuinely scarce as beach float.
What it gets mistaken for
- brachiopod
- bryozoan
- impression
- plain fossil fragment
The facts
- also calledTrilobita
- age~380 million yrs
- where it turns upRockport & Alpena Co. ยท rarely as float
- on the chartultra rare · 150 stickers ever
Put it on the shelf
Every stone on this chart is drawn and kiss-cut at three inches. The rarer the stone, the fewer exist: only 150 trilobite will ever be printed, then the run is retired.
10% of every order goes to the Roscommon County Animal Shelter.