2.2" Excellent Paralejurus Trilobite - Lghaft, Morocco

Excellent Paralejurus Trilobite - Lghaft, Morocco #196922

This is a beautiful 2.2" long brown Paralejurus trilobite collected near Lghaft, Morocco. It's laid out perfectly prone and superbly prepared. You can even see hundreds of tiny eye facets in its eyes under magnification. No restoration.

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 with over 25k currently described species, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to a hard exoskeleton (shell), they left an excellent fossil record.

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