Trilobite Sterling Silver Cufflinks
These sterling silver cufflinks are each frame set with a fascinating and unique Elrathia Trilobite fossil. Each cufflink front measures roughly 16x14mm, not including toggle.
Trilobites will measure around 10x7mm, but as they are a natural item will vary slightly, although we have matched them as closely as possible in pairs. Cufflinks will arrive in a Two Skies gift box with Trilobite pamphlet, ready for gifting.
Dug by hand in Utah, this Elrathia species, Trilobite fossil is a remarkable, hard-shelled, segmented creatures that existed over 520 million years ago in the Earth's ancient seas! Although all extinct now, (they went extinct before dinosaurs even came into existence!) they represent among the first explosions of biological diversity that this amazing planet of ours has generated over time.
Until the early 1900s, the Ute Native Americans of Utah wore these trilobites, which they called pachavee (little water bug), as amulets. A hole was bored in the head and the fossil was worn on a string. According to the Ute themselves, trilobite necklaces protect against disease and bullets.
