08331 - Top Well Prepared 1.28 Inch Cyphaspis (Otarion) cf. boutscharafinense Devonian Trilobite Raptor Its morphology enabled it being

Its morphology enabled it being a very specialized marine predator

It is the canine tooth of a primitive mammal that lived together with the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period

Nat Hist Museum Maastricht

Boucot and McClure 1989 (trilobite)

Ceratocephalinae

08331 - Top Well Prepared 1.28 Inch Cyphaspis (Otarion) cf. boutscharafinense Devonian Trilobite Raptor Its morphology enabled it beingNicely preserved and spectacularly well detailed specimen. It has been carefully prepared during a long laboratory process. Otarion, Zenker 1833 (trilobite) Trilobita Proetida Aulacopleuridae Synonyms: Conoparia Hawle and Corda 1847 (no. 155231), Otarionella Weyber 1965 (no. 21276) Parent taxon: Aulacopleuridae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2003 See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Thomas and Owens 1978 and Whittington 1941 Sister