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Here is an Ordovician Period trilobite called Flexicalymene from the Mt. Washington area in Kentucky. It is approximately 2 cm in length and has been cleaned with a sand blaster. It is about the only one I have found that is stretched out and almost fully intact.
I found it on a field trip with KYANA Geological Society (www.kyanageo.org) of Louisville, Kentucky.
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