3" Dicranurus Trilobite With Five Reedops - Spectacular Piece

Dicranurus Trilobite With Five Reedops - Spectacular Piece #287360

This is a spectacular display piece featuring a bizarre, spiny Dicranurus trilobite from the Lhandar Formation in Morocco. The Dicranurus is good-sized at 3" wide with nice prepartion and free-standing horns. There are also five Reedops trilobites in various stages of enrollment associated with it. Excellent preparation with only about 1-2% restoration in total.

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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