1.35" Spiny Leonaspis Trilobite - Large Specimen

Here is a large, spiny Leonaspis trilobite from Morocco. It's 1.35" in length and the preparation is quite nice with both the genal spines prepared free of the surrounding rock.

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
Leonaspis haddanei
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
1.35" long (including spines)
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#72711
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