1.9" Detailed Metacanthina Trilobite - Lghaft, Morocco

Detailed Metacanthina Trilobite - Lghaft, Morocco #245242

This is a 1.9" long specimen of Metacanthina issoumourensis quarried near Lghaft, Morocco. It is nicely prepared with an amazing amount of shell detail including great eye facet preservation. This specimen only has a tiny bit of shell restoration on top of the left eye (<1%).

This fantastic specimen 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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