1.35" Spiny Leonaspis Trilobite - Morocco

This is a large, detailed, 1.35" long Leonaspis from Morocco. It's nicely laid out on the limestone, not curled like most specimens and the preparation is quite nice. There is some minor restoration along the repaired crack running up the left hand side of it's thorax.

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
Leonaspis hastata
LOCATION
Foum Zguid, Morocco
FORMATION
Assa Formation
SIZE
1.35" long (including spines)
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#98638
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