1.25" Spiny Leonaspis Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco

This is a 1.25" long, spiny Leonaspis trilobite collected from the Lhandar Formation near Atchana, Morocco. It only has about 1% shell restoration, a small patch on it head. It comes with an acrylic display stand.

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 sp.
LOCATION
Atchana, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
1.25" long (including spines)
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#245523
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