1.15" Scare Harpid (Lioharpes?) - Atchana, Morocco

Scare Harpid (Lioharpes?) - Atchana, Morocco #227790

This is an uncommon and I believe undescribed Harpid trilobite from the Lhandar Formation near Atchana, Morocco. Very little work has yet been done on Harpids from Morocco, but this one is most likely of the genus Lioharpes which is currently described from locations in Europe.

This one is 1.15" long and it appears the back half of its body is missing. There is a spot of shell restoration on the end of the left hand genal.

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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