10.4" Cruziana (Fossil Arthropod Trackway) Plate - Morocco

Cruziana (Fossil Arthropod Trackway) Plate - Morocco #251782

This is a fossil trackway (cruziana) of multiple arthropods, collected near Erfoud, Morocco. A variety of different trackways can be seen throughout the stone, with distinguishable, partial trilobite tracks near the center. The slab of mudstone measures 10.4" by 6.7". It would be Ordovician in age, or approximately 450 million years old.

Comes with an acrylic-metal display stand.

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.

More About Trilobites

SPECIES

Unidentified

AGE

Ordovician

LOCATION

Erfoud, Morocco

SIZE

Rock 10.4 x 6.7"

10.4" Cruziana (Fossil Arthropod Trackway) Plate - Morocco

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