1.15" Paralejurus Trilobite Fossil - Cute Little Guy

Paralejurus Trilobite Fossil - Cute Little Guy #68667

This is a cute, little Paralejurus trilobite quarried near Ofaten, Morocco . While it's small for the species at 1.15" long, it's nicely prepared and very 3D. No restoration, just a few crack repairs where the rock was broken during collection. You can even see very tiny eye facets in both eyes.

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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