1.9" Prone Scotoharpes Trilobite - Boudib, Morocco

Here is a gorgeous, 1.9" long, prone example of the Harpetid trilobite Scotoharpes from Morocco. It has a very dramatic "head shield" which is often interpreted as a mechanism to help it stay on top of a soft ocean floor. This preglabellar ring (head shield) is covered in many sensory pits which may have held hairlike features when the trilobite was alive.

The preparation is stunning and it is laid out prone while most of these harpids are curled. It has about 3-5% shell restoration in total along repaired cracks.