5.3" Drotops Trilobite With White Patina - Mrakib, Morocco

Drotops Trilobite With White Patina - Mrakib, Morocco #235811

This is a large, 5" long Drotops megalomanicus trilobite quarried from Mrakib, Morocco. The shell has a white patina to it. This is often seen on specimens from Mrakib where specimens from Issoumour tend to be jet black.

There is good preservation in both eyes and only about 5% shell restoration overall. The limestone surrounding it has been sculpted to create a natural display base that it stands up on a hard surface without the need for a display stand. A really cool piece.

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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