4.75" Beautiful Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Orange Eyes

Beautiful Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Orange Eyes #222444

This is a large, 4.75" long Dalmanitid trilobite (Zlichovaspis rugosa) collected near Atchana, Morocco. It is good-sized for the species, has beautiful shell, laid out nearly prone, and it has bright orange eye preservation. Less than 1% shell restoration.

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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