2.8" Spiny Delocare (Saharops) Trilobite - Bou Lachrhal, Morocco

This is a beautiful specimen of Delocare bensaidi from Bou Lachrhal, Morocco. The preparation is fantastic with excellent eye facet detail and dozens of free-standing, tiny spines. There is about 5% shell restoration as the shell on trilobites from this site tends to peel really badly when split. Overall it's probably the best looking example of this scarce species that we have had.

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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SPECIES
Delocare (Saharops) bensaidi
LOCATION
Bou Lachrhal, Morocco
SIZE
2.8" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#254063
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