Cluster Of Juvenile Dikelokephalina Trilobites - With Pos/Neg Split

This is a cluster of four juvenile Dikelokephalina trilobites from the Fezouata Shale of Morocco. Almost of the specimens found of this species are quite large, sometimes reaching over a foot in length. But these are mere babies with the largest being .85" long. Includes both the positive and negative of the split.

A description of this trilobite can be found at the link below:

Trilobites of the genus Dikelokephalina from Ordovician Gondwana and Avalonia

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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