1.5" Spiny Leonaspsis Trilobite With Free-Standing Genals

This is elegant, spiny Leonaspis trilobite from Ofaten, Morocco.The genal spines have been prepared totally free of the surrounding rock and it has wonderful shell detail including many small nodes on the axis, a feature often last on specimens with lesser quality preparation.

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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Leonaspis
LOCATION
Ofaten, Morocco
SIZE
1.5" long (including spines)
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#114576
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