3.4" Prone Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco

Prone Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco #242124

This is a 3.4" long, perfectly prone Zlichovaspis trilobite from Atchana, Morocco, It's well prepared with excellent detail including visible eye facets. There is less than 1% shell restoration.

Unfortunately it's missing it's right genal spine.

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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