This remarkable trilobite pair is over 470 million years old. It was preserved in a concretion that was broken in half to reveal the positive and negative of the specimen with its natural rust-orange coloring.
Hoekaspis belongs to the family Asaphidae of trilobites that lived in the oceans during the Ordovician period
Type: Trilobite
Species: Hoekaspis sp.
Age: Ordovician (488 - 443 million years old)
Locality: Nor-Cinti Province, Bolivia, South America
Size (of negative half): 3.75 x 3.5 x .88 inches
Size (of positive half): 4.56 x 3.63 x .69 inches
Weight: 15.4 oz