5.5" Spiny Selenopeltis Trilobite (Head Tucked) - Erfoud, Morocco

Spiny Selenopeltis Trilobite (Head Tucked) - Erfoud, Morocco #206446

This is a 5.5" long example of the large, spiny, odontopleurid trilobite Selenopeltis buchi. The head is tucked underneath the body but was been exposed on the back of the rock.

Comes with a display stand.

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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