2.1" Phacops Araw Trilobite - New Phacopid Species

This is a 2.1" long, perfectly prone specimen of Adrisiops weugi, a fairly rare species of phacopid from Morocco. It has a distinctive bulging glabella covered in large tubercles. This specimen is nicely prepared with nice eye facet preservation. One small patch of shell restoration on the front of the head, about 2%

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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SPECIES
Adrisiops weugi
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
2.1" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#89326
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