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.8" Red Bathycheilus Trilobite - Zagora, Morocco
Here is a .8" long, reddish Bathycheilus trilobite from the Lower Ordovician deposits near Zagora, Morocco. The orange and red coloration is natural and due to the oxidization of iron pyrite.
Trilobites were a very diverse group of extinct marine arthropods. They first appeared in the fossil record in the Early Cambrian (521 million years ago) and went extinct during the Permian mass extinction (250 million years ago). They were one of the most successful of the early animals on our planet: over 25,000 species have been described, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to their hard exoskeletons (shells), they left an excellent fossil record.
SPECIES
Bathycheilus sp.
AGE
LOCATION
Ouled Slimane, Zagora area, Morocco
FORMATION
Fezouata Shale
SIZE
.8" long on 3.6x3.1" matrix
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#105872
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