ID German Trilobite

[Max10]

Hi everybody!

 

This time i kindly ask your help to identify a little gift a friend of mine give to me last weekend. I really know nothing about german trilobites...i have no idea!

 

Here are the info:

Origin: Eifel, Germany

Age: Devonian (probably Middle...Eifelian? Givetian?)

Lenght: 8.5 cm / 3.35 inches

Cephalon Width (max): 4.8 cm / 1.9 inches

 

I'm thankful to everyone who wants to participate at the topic Have a wonderful weekend!

[Max10]

[Tidgy's Dad]

Well, I may be way off as i don't know the German trilobites, but to me, judging by the smooth pygidial flank, this looks like an Ordovician Colpocoryphe roualti. The cephalon seems to have been stuck on and I think I see Moroccan style cement. 

[Top Trilo]

I agree with Adam, doesn't look German, probably Moroccan

[Kane]

Agreed. A Moroccan Colpocoryphe, Ordovician in age. 

[piranha]

3 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Well, I may be way off as i don't know the German trilobites, but to me, judging by the smooth pygidial flank, this looks like an Ordovician Colpocoryphe roualti. 

The cephalon seems to have been stuck on and I think I see Moroccan style cement. 

 

 

In Morocco the species is: Colpocoryphe grandis

 

Destombes, J. 1966

Quelques Calymenina (Trilobitae) de l'Ordovicien Moyen et Supérieur de l'Anti-Atlas (Maroc).

[Some Calymenina (Trilobita) from the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco).]

Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc, 188:33-52

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, piranha said:

 

 

In Morocco the species is: Colpocoryphe grandis

 

Destombes, J. 1966

Quelques Calymenina (Trilobitae) de l'Ordovicien Moyen et Supérieur de l'Anti-Atlas (Maroc).

[Some Calymenina (Trilobita) from the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco).]

Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc, 188:33-52

Yeah, thanks, I always get those the wrong way around. 

[Kane]

Just now, Tidgy's Dad said:

Yeah, thanks, I always get those the wrong way around. 

C. roualti is the one wearing the beret and eating a baguette.  

[Max10]

Thanks to all of you, guys! You're awesome! Fantastic! In just few hours you found age, origin and perfect species identification...with document too!!

That's insane for me Thanks again, see you to next id!