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Bargain, 3.4" Hollardops Trilobite - Very Large Example
This is a vary large, 3.4" long Hollardops mesocristata trilobite collected Morocco. It shows quite a bit of surface detail including well preserved eye facets. It has been prepared with air scribes and air abrasives so that it looks like it is ready to crawl off of the rock.
There is a bit of compression and missing shell, hence the bargain price. At 3.4" long this is about maxiumum size for the genus.
There is a bit of compression and missing shell, hence the bargain price. At 3.4" long this is about maxiumum size for the genus.
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.
SPECIES
Hollardops mesocristata
AGE
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
3.4" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#80646
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