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2.2" Hollardops Trilobite Fossil - Detailed Eye Preservation
This is a detailed, 2.2" long Hollardops trilobite fossil quarried near Ofaten, Morocco. It has excellent eye facet preservation in the left eye though there is some damage to the right. It only has about 1-2% shell restoration along a repaired crack.
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.
SPECIES
Hollardops
AGE
LOCATION
Ofaten, Morocco
SIZE
2.2" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#275225
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