1.4" Gorgeous, Spiny Trilobite (Leonaspis) - Atchana, Morocco

Gorgeous, Spiny Trilobite (Leonaspis) - Atchana, Morocco #210169

Here is a beautiful, 1.4" long, spiny Leonaspis trilobite from Atchana, Morocco. The dramatic spines are well preserved, you can see the small stalk eyes poking up above its head. Top notch preparation on this specimen, leaving the shell free from any air abrasive burn marks.

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 with over 25k currently described species, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to a hard exoskeleton (shell), they left an excellent fossil record.

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