Home >> Start >> Proetina >> Otarion (Cyphaspis) ceratophthalmum 1 all trilobites on Trilotarium german/deutsch
0010
Otarion (Cyphaspis) ceratophthalmum (GOLDFUSS)

Ahrdorfschichten, Lower Middle Devonian

Gees, Eifel (Germany)

Width of the cephalon about 1.1 cm
0011 0012
One of the most beautyful spiny trilobites of the Eifel is Otarion. Several species are known. Spined trilobites are to be found in several systematical groupes, as in Lichida, Odontopleurida, or as Otarion here, in Proetida.

With certainity Otarion was a trilobite gliding over the ground searching there for its food. In danger Otarion was able to enroll as the drawing shows, while the spines became an effective armament.
0013
another specimen
(same data as above)
0014 0015
0020 0021
Otarion ceratophthalmum 2
Asaphida Harpina Illaenina Lichida Phacopina Proetina
Start Links all trilobites on Trilotarium Specials
up Home email
Deutsch