2.55" Coltraneia Trilobite Fossil - Huge Faceted Eyes

Coltraneia Trilobite Fossil - Huge Faceted Eyes #86004

This is a large, 2.55 long, bug-eyed, Coltraneia trilobite with amazing "tower eyes" full of hundreds of eye facets. The species has often been referred to as a Treveropyge in the past. It was quarried at Ofaten Mountain, Morocco. Check out the detail in both of it's huge eyes!

There is some shell restoration along the pleural tips on the right hand side of the body where the rock had been split.

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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