1.75" Long-Spined Thysanopeltis Trilobite - Bigaa, Morocco

Long-Spined Thysanopeltis Trilobite - Bigaa, Morocco #221218

This is a stunning, 1.75" Thysanopeltis trilobite collected near Taouz, Morocco. This particular species is quite rare, and I've only seen a small number of them come available over the past couple years. It is laid out prone and well preserved with only some minor restoration along repaired cracks.

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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