2.3" Enrolled Wenndorfia Trilobite - Bou Lachrhal, Morocco

Enrolled Wenndorfia Trilobite - Bou Lachrhal, Morocco #190162

This is a cute, enrolled Wenndorfia plana trilobite from Bou Lachrhal, Morocco. It would be about 2.3" long if outstretched and it is very nicely preserved. There is a small amount of restoration on the right edge of the thorax along a repaired crack.

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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