3.4" Flying Paralejurus Trilobite With Reedops - Atchana, Morocco

This is an amazing, 3.4" long Paralejurus trilobite quarried at Atchana, Morocco. It has been prepared so that it flies above the limestone on a pillar of stone. A very impressive trilobite specimen. It has about 3-4% shell restoration in total.

About Trilobites

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 & Reedops
LOCATION
Atchana, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
3.4" long (if outstretched)
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#232853
GUARANTEE
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