3.4" Gorgeous Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Top Quality Specimen

Gorgeous Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Top Quality Specimen #273885

This is a beautiful, 3.4" long Zlichovaspis trilobite from Atchana, Morocco. It has chocolate-brown shell preservation and excellent detail including visible eye facets in both eyes. The rock around it has been undercut to bring it out in high relief against the surrounding limestone. Total restoration is about 3%

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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