2.8" Flying Paralejurus Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco

This is a chocolate brown, 2.8" long Paralejurus trilobite quarried at Atchana, Morocco. It has been prepared so that it flies above the limestone on a pillar of stone. Only about 1-2% shell restoration in total. A very impressive trilobite specimen.

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
Paralejurus spatuliforumis (Schraut & Feist, 2004)
LOCATION
Atchana, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
2.8" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#226078
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