2.35" Wide Enrolled Drotops Trilobite - Spiny Phacopid

This is a 2.35" wide spiny Drotops armatus trilobite, preserved in a partially enrolled position. This large phacopid trilobite would have been over 4" long if outstretched. This species is typically covered in over 50 large spines, but the spines are all broken off fairly close to their base in this specimen, hence the bargain price. Great eye facet detail in both eyes.

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
Drotops armatus
LOCATION
Mrakib, Morocco
FORMATION
Bou Dib Formation
SIZE
2.35" wide, about 4" long if outstretched
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#169566
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