Mororccan Harpes (Scotoharpes) Trilobite - 2" Long

Here is a 2" long example of the Harpetida trilobite Harpes (Scotoharpes) from Boudib, Morocco on the NE side of Jebel Issoumour. It has a very dramatic "head shield" which is often interpreted as a mechanism to help it stay on top of a soft ocean floor. This preglabellar ring (head shield) is covered in many sensory pits which may have held hairlike features when the trilobite was alive.