Large 3.07" Stalked Eyed Asaphus Kowalewskii

Here is a stalked eyed Asaphus kowalewskii trilobite that looks like it is ready to crawl off the plate. It was collected from the Vilpovitsy quarry near St. Petersburg Russia. Out of the dozens of described Asaphus species kowalewskii has the longest eye stalks which is would have used like a periscope to look around while staying safely buried in the mud.

This is a very large specimen at over 3 inches long and it is laid out nice and prone. Yes, those eye stalks are real. Like nearly all trilobites from these quarries there is some shell restoration because shell tends to either flake off when the rock is broken to find them or they have weathered shell from portions being exposed. There is about 8-10% of restored shell on this specimen, spread out in small patches. This is a pretty typical.