Cybele bellatula

Cybele bellatula is the fossil of an extinct trilobite from the Lower Ordovician.

The genus was named after Cybele, the ancient Oriental and Greco-Roman goddess representing Gaia, the deified Earth Mother.

Cybele bellatula grew to a maximum of about 45 millimetres (1.8 in) with an intriguing morphology; it shows deep, thin lateral furrows, long eye-stalks, exceeding the cephalon in length, and a tiny visual surface; its eye-stalks are about 0.5 mm in diameter; its glabella is covered in tubercles.

This trilobite fossil occurs in Russia, Sweden and Norway.

[3] The trilobites were a large and diverse group, numbering over 10,000 species.