3" Morocconites Trilobite Fossil - Beautiful Detail

Morocconites Trilobite Fossil - Beautiful Detail #130524

This is a nice 3" long specimen of Morocconites malladoides. The genus has a distinctive pointed rostrum coming off the front of it's head. Nice preparation with visible eye facets in both eyes.

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 with over 25k currently described species, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to a hard exoskeleton (shell), they left an excellent fossil record.

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