Bargain, .98" Fossil Trilobite (Paciphacops) - Oklahoma

Bargain, Fossil Trilobite (Paciphacops) - Oklahoma #136962

This is a trilobite of the genus Paciphacops that was collected from the Haragan Formation of Oklahoma. The specimen is .98" in length and has been removed from the surrounding rock, prepped using air abrasives and remounted to the 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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