Starlux Diplodocus and Brontosaurus
Diplodocus, early version • Brontosaurus
Starlux Endothiodon and Bradysaurus
Endothiodon • Bradysaurus
Starlux Andrewsarchus and Rhinoceros
Andrewsarchus • Rhinoceros
Starlux Spirifer
Starlux Spirifer • pyritized Spirifer
Starlux Spirifer • pyritized Spirifer
Starlux Trilobite
real trilobite in real nodule • Starlux trilobite in plastic nodule
Starlux Trilobite and assorted
Calymene, Dicalymene, and Flexicalymene specimens
The Starlux Trilobite in Nodule is an odd figure. It is a two-piece item, a trilobite and its negative cast. Many trilobite species are commonly found this way. The plastic is much softer, and more durable, than the other Starlux figures (except the Spirifer). The Trilobite isn't painted. And it's not a model of the animal, but rather a model of the fossil. If the other Starlux figures were models of fossils, they'd be, at best, jumbled piles of bones.
Judging by the looks of the Trilobite, I'd guess that it was modeled after one of the Calymenina, a suborder of the order Phacopida. The Calymenina appear in lower Ordivician strata and survive through the Devonian.
There is more activity in trilobite systematics than seems reasonable. There are some 5000 known genera, and the little buggers keep getting moved around.
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