08318 - Nicely Preserved 2.50 Inch Hollardops merocristata Middle Devonian Mawsonia 3 Type spec location: MNB

3 Type spec location: MNB Main mass: Said Yousfi Comments: Submitted by Ansgar Greshake

The size of olivine crystals range 0

A fine rim is observed on the sample

slowly drawn during millions of years via fossil-diagenetic processes

There have been many studies on this sauropod

08318 - Nicely Preserved 2.50 Inch Hollardops merocristata Middle Devonian Mawsonia 3 Type spec location: MNBNicely well preserved and prepared specimen. Nice eyes facets. Hollardops sp, Morzadec 1997 (trilobite) Trilobita Phacopida Acastidae Synonyms: Modellops Lieberman and Kloc 1997 (no. 259054), Philipsmithiana Lieberman and Kloc 1997 (no. 259046) Parent taxon: Acastidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002 See also Lieberman and Kloc 1997 Sister taxa: Acastava, Acaste, Acastella, Acastellina, Acastocephala, Acastoides, Acastopyge, Alcaldops,