1.7" Exceptional Kolihapeltis Trilobite With Enrolled Reedops

Exceptional Kolihapeltis Trilobite With Enrolled Reedops #243927

This is a spiny 1.7" long example of Kolihapeltis chlupaci hollardi from the Lhandar Formation near Atchana, Morocco. It is nicely prepared and naturally associated with an enrolled Reedops trilobite. Excellent shell quality on this specimen. There is about 2-3% shell restoration on the Kolihapeltis.

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.

$995

SPECIES

Kolihapeltis chlupaci hollardi & Reedops

AGE

Lower Devonian (Pragian Stage)