Aesthetic Crotalocephalina & Reedops Trilobite Association

This is a really aesthetic association of to Crotalocephalina gibbus trilobites and an enrolled Reedops from Atchana, Morocco. The specimens has been painstakingly prepared to remove the surrounding limestone, leaving the trilobite fossils perched in an aesthetic display. It's tough to tell it the enrolled reedops was composited onto the piece or if it just was remounted in it's original position.

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
Crotalocephalina gibbus & Reedops
LOCATION
Atchana, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
Rock 5.5x3.5", largest trilobite 2.6"
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#82974
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