These little trilobites are huge favourites at Timeless Galleries.
The long-extinct trilobite, Eldredgeia, swam the seas of what is now South America and South Africa around 400,000,000 years ago. There is nothing particularly special about Eldredgeia - they aren't especially large, their compound eyes are often well preserved but otherwise unremarkable, their glabella (a bulbous thing in the middle of their head that looks a bit like a nose) is lumpy... however, they do have one redeeming feature: They're often found in nodules.
Opening a trilobite nodule is like cracking open a four-hundred-million year-old egg. Inside is a perfectly formed creature, complete with a mirror-image negative cast.
These trilobites are quite rare and a pleasure to own. Look out for them, or the nodular trilobite, Metacryphaeus, at Timeless Galleries.
Around 8cm in length and mounted on an oak plinth
ELDREDGEIA TRILOBITE NODULE
Acquired by Timeless on the UK fossil and mineral market, 2018. Originally discovered in Bolivia.