Two Ordovician Gastropods and a Trilobite (Onnia) Head - Morocco

This is a pair of interesting Ordovician age gastropod fossils and a trilobite head (Onnia), collected from a location near Hmar Laghdad, Morocco. These gastropods must be mechanically prepared from the hard limestone they are found in.

Gastropods, or snails, have been around since the Late Cambrian period. The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number. There are 611 known families of gastropods, of which 202 families are extinct and appear only in the fossil record.

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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Unidentified Gastropod & Onnia sp. (Trilobite)
LOCATION
Near Hmar Laghdad, Morocco
SIZE
.8" & .6" wide, 3.6 x 1.8" entire specimen
CATEGORY
ITEM
#164099
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