1.65" Detailed Scotoharpes Trilobite - Boudib, Morocco

This is a detailed, 1.65" long, prone example of the Harpetid trilobite Scotoharpes from Morocco. It has a very dramatic "head shield" which is often interpreted as a mechanism to help it stay on top of a soft ocean floor. This preglabellar ring (head shield) is covered in many sensory pits which may have held hairlike features when the trilobite was alive.