2.6" Flying Ceratonurus Trilobite - Top Quality Prep

This is an incredible example of a rare, spiny Ceratonurus trilobite from the Lower Devonian of Morocco. This example has excellent shell quality, and all the long spines have been prepared free-standing. Just check out all of the preserved secondary spines! There is also an interesting pathology with the one of the pygidial spines on the right hand side. Restoration is only about 1-2% along 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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Ceratonurus
LOCATION
Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
2.6" long (including spines)
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#193692
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