Bargain, 2.85" Paralejurus Trilobite Fossil - Ofaten, Morocco

This is a large, 2.85" long Paralejurus trilobite quarried near Ofaten, Morocco. It's nicely prepared and looks like it is ready to crawl off of the rock. You can even make out some of the thousands of tiny eye facets in each eye under magnification.

The back half of the tail has been restored and there is also a bit of shell restoration on it's head hence the bargain price.

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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Paralejurus rehamnanus (Alberti, 1970)
LOCATION
Ofaten, Morocco
FORMATION
El Otfal Formation
SIZE
2.85" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#92132
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