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3.75" Spiny Delocare (Saharops) Trilobite - Top Quality Specimen
This is a very large, top-quality Delocare bensaidi trilobite from Bou Lachrhal, Morocco. The preparation is fantastic with excellent eye facet detail and dozens of tiny, free-standing, spines. At about 4 inches long it is near maximum size for the species and it has excellent shell quality. It has no restoration.
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.
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.
$1,650
SPECIES
Delocare (Saharops) bensaidi
LOCATION
Bou Lachrhal, Morocco
SIZE
3.75" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#350505
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