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3" Detailed Reedops Trilobite - Atchana, Morocco
This is a 3" long, detailed Reedops trilobite collected near Atchana, Morocco. It has a lot of surface detail including visible preserved eye facets in its eyes. It has been prepared to remove the surrounding limestone so that it looks like it's ready to crawl off the rock. There is some shell weathering to the left hand side of head and upper thorax.
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.
SPECIES
Reedops cephalotes hamlagdadianus
LOCATION
Atchana, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
3" long (if outstretched)
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#310245
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