1.7" Platyscutellum Trilobite - Tafraoute, Morocco
This is an nice, 1.7" long Platyscutellum trilobite quarried near Tafraoute, Morocco. It has a beautiful brown shell coloration which transitions to an orange coloration on the pleural spines. This is a fairly rare species to find at the location.
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 with over 25k described species, filling nearly every evolutionary niche. Due in large part to a hard exoskeleton (shell), they left a excellent fossil record.
SPECIES
Platyscutellum sp.
LOCATION
Tafraoute, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
Trilobites 1.7" on 4.3x4.2" rock
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#162708
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