5" Drotops Trilobite - Excellent Faceted Eyes

This is a large, detailed, 5" long (if outstretched) Drotops trilobite quarried from Issoumour, Morocco. It's good size for this large phacopid species and has excellent shell detail including beautiful eye facet preservation. The limestone has been removed from around it leaving it flying above the base of rock on a pedastal. A really aesthetic specimen, with only some very minor restoration along the repaired cracks.

A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco showing the hard limestone layers being worked.
A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco showing the hard limestone layers being worked.


A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco.  The quarry following the horizon where this trilobites are found extends several kilometers around the mountain.
A photo of the Drotops quarry at Issoumour, Morocco. The quarry following the horizon where this trilobites are found extends several kilometers around the mountain.


How a Drotops might be found in the field, with part of the tail exposed in the broken rock.  It would then be prepared using airscribes and air abrasives a process that would likely take 20+ hours for a good specimen..
How a Drotops might be found in the field, with part of the tail exposed in the broken rock. It would then be prepared using airscribes and air abrasives a process that would likely take 20+ hours for a good specimen..


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SPECIES
Drotops megalomanicus
LOCATION
Issoumour, Morocco
FORMATION
Bou Dib Formation
SIZE
5" long (if outstretched)
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#76210
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