2.7" Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco

Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco #273796

This is a 2.7" long Zlichovaspis trilobite collected near Atchana, Morocco. It has dark-brown shell preservation and good detail including visible eye facets in both eyes. It has some disarticulation in the thorax, but it is nicely prepared with no restoration.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

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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