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Perfectly Enrolled Drotops Trilobite - About 4" Around
This is a perfectly enrolled specimen of the giant phacopid trilobite Drotops megalomanicus. It's 2.6" wide and would be around 4" long if outstretched. It has been completely removed from the surrounding limestone and all of the surface detail including the bumps covering its head and tail and many eye facets can easily be seen. It has about 3% shell restoration along repaired cracks.
About Trilobites
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.
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.
$325
SPECIES
Drotops megalomanicus
AGE
LOCATION
Mrakib, Morocco
FORMATION
Bou Dib Formation
SIZE
2.6" wide, About 4 1/2" around curve
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#312783
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