2" Partially Enrolled Reedops Trilobite - Aatchana, Morocco

Partially Enrolled Reedops Trilobite - Aatchana, Morocco #235814

This is a 2" long, partially enrolled Reedops trilobite collected near Atchana, Morocco. It has a lot of surface detail including, visible, preserved eye facets. there is about 6-7% shell restoration mainly on top of its axis and head.

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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