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2.1" Austerops Trilobite Fossil - Morocco
This is a detailed, 2.1" long Austerops trilobite from Ofaten, Morocco. Good eye facet preservation in both eyes. It has been carefully extracted from it's limestone tomb and looks like it is ready to crawl off of the rock. There is about 2-3% shell restoration, mainly in a patch on its back-right hand side.
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.
SPECIES
Austerops
AGE
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
2.1" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#202988
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