2.7" Austerops Trilobite With Nice Eyes

Austerops Trilobite With Nice Eyes #57663

This is a detailed, 2.7" Austerops (Phacops) trilobite from the Devonian deposits of Morocco. Excellent preparation, and it displays very aesthetically the limestone that it was found in. Nice eye facet preservation. There is about 2% shell restoration along the 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 with over 25k currently described species, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to a hard exoskeleton (shell), they left an excellent fossil record.

More About Trilobites

SPECIES

Austerops

AGE

Devonian

LOCATION

Ofaten, Morocco

SIZE

2.7" long (if outstretched)

2.7" Austerops Trilobite With Nice Eyes

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