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5.5" Large Phacopid (Drotops) Trilobite - Multi-Toned Shell Color
This is a big, fat 5.5" long Drotops megalomanicus trilobite quarried from Mrakib, Morocco. It's very 3D with excellent eye facet preservation and preparation. It has a natural, multi-toned shell coloration and only about 3-4% shell restoration along 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
Mrakib, Morocco
FORMATION
Bou Dib Formation
SIZE
5.5" long (if outstretched0
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#235806
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