Huge, 6.05" Spiny Psychopyge Trilobite - Issoumour, Morocco

Huge, Spiny Psychopyge Trilobite - Issoumour, Morocco #160890

This is an absolutely massive Psychopyge elegans from Issoumour, Morocco. At 6.05" long this is near maximum size for the species and one of the largest one I've seen for sale. It has dozens of tiny, free-standing spines and a distinctive rostrum. Excellent eye facet preservation in both eyes and just some restoration the tip of rostrum and touchups along repaired cracks.

A beast of a trilobite.

An acrylic and metal display stand will accompany your purchase.

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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