1.2" Scabriscutellum Trilobite With Axial Nodes

This is a nicely prepared, 1.2" long, Scabriscutellum trilobite from Morocco. Excellent shell detail including thousands of tiny eye facets are present. Nice shell preservation with tiny, tiny eye facets visible in the eyes under magnification. There is about 3% shell restoration along the repaired crack.

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.
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SPECIES
Scabriscutellum
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
1.2" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#68664
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