1.1" Mrakibina Trilobite With Two Partials - Mrakib, Morocco

Mrakibina Trilobite With Two Partials - Mrakib, Morocco #192780

This is a nice, 1.1" long specimen of the uncommon trilobite Mrakibina cattoi. This species is quarried near Mrakib, Morocco. It is nicely prepared and there is partial specimen and another head associated with it on the rock.

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.

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