Trilobite pygidium
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Specimen #736
Taxon: Family Phillipsiidae, Genus indet.
Locality: McCoy, Eagle County, CO
Age: Pennsylvanian Period, Late Atokan Stage
Rock unit: Minturn Formation
Collector: N. Itano
This is the pygidium (tail) of a trilobite.
It is poorly preserved, but I am including it because
trilobites of any kind are rare at this locality.
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