2.45" Prone Paralejurus Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco

Prone Paralejurus Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco #230471

This is a perfectly prone, 2.45" long Paralejurus trilobite quarried at Atchana, Morocco. The shell is dark brown coloration and you can even see tiny eye facets under magnification. There is no restoration on this specimen. About 2% shell 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: 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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