3.8" Gorgeous Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco

Gorgeous Zlichovaspis Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco #255344

This is a gorgeous 3.8" long Zlichovaspis trilobite from Atchana, Morocco. It has dark brown shell preservation and excellent detail including visible eye facets in both eyes. It's laid out nicely on the limestone and is well prepared. It only has about 1% restoration. A really nice example of the species.

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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