Bargain, 3.3" Crotalocephalina Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco

This is a bargain, 3.3" long Crotalocephalina gibbus trilobite from Atchana, Morocco. It has been mechanically prepared with airscribes so that it looks ready to crawl off of the rock. This trilobite is quite large for the species. There are a number of areas of shell restoration on this specimen, 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
Crotalocephalina (Crotalocephalus) gibbus
LOCATION
Atchana, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
3.3" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#120046
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