2.5" Prone Morocconites Trilobite - Ofaten, Morocco

Prone Morocconites Trilobite - Ofaten, Morocco #75771

This is a nicely prepared, 2.5" long specimen of Morocconites malladoides with excellent shell detail and clear eye facets. It was quarried near Ofaten, Morocco. There is only about 2% restoration, along the repaired cracks.

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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