Austerops & Morocops Trilobite Association - Ofaten, Morocco

This is an association of two different genus of phacopid trilobites from Ofaten, Morocco. There is both an Morocops & Austerops in close proximity. Nice preservation and preparation on both specimens. The Austerops has about 2% shell restoration.

It comes with an acrylic 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 with over 25k currently described species, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to a hard exoskeleton (shell), they left an excellent fossil record.

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