1.3" Spiny Scabriscutellum Trilobite With Bite - Foum Zguid, Morocco

Spiny Scabriscutellum Trilobite With Bite - Foum Zguid, Morocco #171024

This is a spiny Scabriscutellum lahceni trilobite from the Timrhanrhart Formation near Foum Zguid, Morocco. It has a row of small axial spines as well as spines above each eye. Beautiful shell preservation. This is a fairly rare species of Scabriscutellum that you don't see on the market very often.

There is a bite mark in the back-right hand side of its 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.