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2.15" Brown Coltraneia Trilobite - Issoumour, Morocco
Now here is something that is a little more unusual, a brown Coltraneia trilobite quarried near Issoumour, Morocco. Nearly all the Coltraneia you see are black and come from Ofaten Mountain.
This specimen 2.15" long and laid out nice and prone. There is some shell restoration on the right genal.
This specimen 2.15" long and laid out nice and prone. There is some shell restoration on the right genal.
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
Coltraneia oufatenensis
LOCATION
Issoumour, Morocco
FORMATION
El Otfal Formation
SIZE
2.15" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#245265
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