2" Ordovician Eccoptochile Trilobite - Morocco

This is a rarely offering, cheirurid trilobite from the Ordovician of Morocco, Eccoptochile. It was collected from the Taddrist Formation in the Battou Area.

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
Eccoptochile sp.
LOCATION
Battou Area, Morocco
FORMATION
Taddrist Formation
SIZE
2" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#137696
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