4.75" Spiny Selenopeltis Trilobite - Erfoud, Morocco

Spiny Selenopeltis Trilobite - Erfoud, Morocco #300372

This is a wonderful, 4.75" long (including spines) example of the spiny odontopleurid trilobite, Selenopeltis buchi. These trilobites are quarried east of Erfoud, Morocco from the Upper Tiouririne Formation. Unlike most examples you see, it is not heavily restored with just a little bit of restoration along a repaired crack and across the pygidium.

Comes with a display stand.

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.

$395

SPECIES

Selenopeltis buchi (Barrande 1846)

AGE

Upper Ordovician - Katian Stage