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.8" Wide, Curled Austerops Trilobite - Morocco
This is a curled, .8" wide Austerops trilobite from Issoumour, Morocco. This specimen has about 5% 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.
SPECIES
Morocops
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
.8" wide, about 1.5" long around curve
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#224212
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