1.65" Enrolled Scotoharpes Trilobite - Red-Brown Headshield

Here is a beautiful example of the Harpetida 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.

This specimen is beautiful with a red-brown head shield and nice preparation. Total restoration is about 4% mainly along the right edge of the head shield.