Fossils of extinct trilobites


Fossils of extinct trilobites: Paradoxites tessini, Asaphus expansus, Calymene Blumenbachii, Calymene macrophthalma, Asaphus crassicauda, Ogygia guellardii. Handcoloured lithograph by an unknown artist from Dr. Schmidt's "Petrefactenbuch," published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr. Schmidt's "Book of Petrification" introduced fossils and palaeontology to both the specialist and general reader.


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