Bargain, 2.85" Boeckops Trilobite - Nice Eye Facets

Bargain, Boeckops Trilobite - Nice Eye Facets #154806

This is a detailed 2.85" long, Boeckops stelcki trilobite from the Devonian of Morocco. It has nice shell detail including eye facets. There is some compression and weathering on the tail but otherwise it is a nice trilobite.

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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