.75" Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) Trilobite - Issoumour, Morocco

This is a nice, .75" long example of an uncommon lichid trilobite, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) bassei from Morocco. It has nice shell detail including the hundreds of small bumps.

The paper describing this species

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
Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) bassei
LOCATION
Jebel Issoumour, Morocco
FORMATION
El Otfal Formation
SIZE
.75" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#154340
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