We are a groupe of professional preparers of trilobites, we have been doing this job for 15 years. The spicemens that we prepared are in many famous museums in the world (FRANCE, USA, CANADA, ENGLAND, GERMANY, JAPAN...etc), or in hands of  private collectors who has the largest trilobite collections in the globe, and trilobite professionals.

      For preparing trilobites, we use modern equipment and methodes like stereomicroscope and sand blaster, spending many hours with extrem concentration on every part of the exoskeleton: cheek, eyes, spines, and secondary sipnes, hypostome...

you can see how is excellent and fine preparation we can do in every part of the trilobite body.

Eyes:

eye of a walliserops trifurcatus perfectly saved after preparation.

walliserops trifurcatus with short right prong

Spines:

One of the beautiful part of a trilobite, is eyes, the specimen is perfect if it has this micro cristal lens not damaged.

This Koneprusia has many sipnes and secondary spines that are separed with 1 to 2 millimetres (it can be less than 1mm ) , the preparation becomes a microscopic work! it's such an electronic chipset.

secodary spines

One of the most difficult mission to do on a trilobite's exoskeleton is, to prepare the scondary spines that are too small! this koneprusia has hundreds of secondary spines that are smaller than a head of a sewing needle.

The hypostome makes a trilobite more interesting!

hypostome

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Erbenochile erbini is one of the most difficult trilobite to prepare, the eye lenses are extremly fantastic, each eye has more than 460 lenses!