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8.7" Insane, Spiny, Undescribed Scabrella Trilobite - Morocco
This is an incredible, giant, spiny Scabrella trilobite from Issoumour, Morocco. Despite numerous fake, composited and heavily restored specimens of this giant, porcupine-like trilobite finding their way onto the market, only a handful complete specimens have ever been found. This one is real, is NOT a composite and is very well prepared. There is less than 5% shell restoration along repaired cracks and only a few of the smallest of the free-standing spines have been restored. It measures a massive, 8.7" in length.
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.
SPECIES
Scabrella sp.
LOCATION
Issoumour, Morocco
SIZE
8.7" long
CATEGORY
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ITEM
#251039
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