1.2" Detailed Hollardops Trilobite - Foum Zguid, Morocc

Detailed Hollardops Trilobite - Foum Zguid, Morocc #196637

This is a nicely prepared, 1.2" long (if outstretched) Hollardops trilobite from the Timrhanrhart Formation near Foum Zguid, Morocco. Nice eye facet preservation in both eyes and no restoration. Both the genal spines have been prepared free of the surrounding limestone. A bit of disarticulation with the tail.

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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