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5.8" Drotops Trilobite - Large Specimen!
This is a large, detailed, 5.8"Drotops trilobite quarried from Issoumour, Morocco. It's good size for this large phacopid species and has excellent shell detail including beautiful eye facet preservation. The limestone has been removed from around it leaving it flying above the base of rock on a pedastal. It has a multi-toned coloration due to some of the shell being weathered but there is no restoration.
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
5.8" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#76408
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