3.2" Spiny Psychopyge Trilobite - Top Quality Specimen

Spiny Psychopyge Trilobite - Top Quality Specimen #254068

This is a top quality, 3.2" long Psychopyge elegans trilobite from Issoumour, Morocco. It has dozens of tiny, free-standing spines and a distinctive rostrum. Great eye facet preservation, free standing spines and less than 1% total restoration. There are some micro-fossils including small pieces of coral that were left in place on the trilobite during preparation.

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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