Long-Spined Huntonia Lingulifer - Rare Species!

This is an amazingly detail Huntonia lingulifer trilobite from the famous Black Cat Mountain in Oklahoma. It was collected and prepared by the master himself Bob Carroll this past year.

Huntonia lingulifer is MUCH rarer than the other species of Huntonia in the same horizon at Black Cat Mountain. Less than one in ten of the Huntonia's found are lingulifer, so on average there may only be a single good complete specimen found each year. One of the main characteristics that separate it from the other species of Huntonia at the locality is the much longer pygidial (tail) spine.

The species doesn't get is large as the others from the same genus so at 2 inches long it's about average size. Great shell detail including the many eye facets on this specimen.