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5.45" Drotops Trilobite - Top Quality Specimen!
This is a large, beautifully preserved, 5.45" Drotops trilobite quarried from Issoumour, Morocco. This is a top quality specimen being quite large for the species, perfectly prone and well prepared. Excellent eye facets in both eyes and it has been prepared so that it displays very aesthetically on a pedestal of limestone. Only about 1% restoration along the repaired cracks.
A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco showing the hard limestone layers being worked.
A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco. The quarry following the horizon where this trilobites are found extends several kilometers around the mountain.
How a Drotops might be found in the field, with part of the tail exposed in the broken rock. It would then be prepared using airscribes and air abrasives a process that would likely take 20+ hours for a good specimen..
A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco showing the hard limestone layers being worked.
A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco. The quarry following the horizon where this trilobites are found extends several kilometers around the mountain.
How a Drotops might be found in the field, with part of the tail exposed in the broken rock. It would then be prepared using airscribes and air abrasives a process that would likely take 20+ hours for a good specimen..
SPECIES
Drotops megalomanicus
AGE
LOCATION
Issoumour, Morocco
FORMATION
Bou Dib Formation
SIZE
5.45" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#76209
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