Rare, 1.65" Poroscutellum Trilobite - Tafraoute, Morocco

This is an excellent, 1.65" long Poroscutellum trilobite quarried near Tafraoute, Morocco. It has a beautiful brown shell coloration which transitions to an orange coloration on the pleural spines. This is a fairly rare species to find at the location.

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
Poroscutellum sp
LOCATION
Tafraoute, Morocco
FORMATION
Lhandar Formation
SIZE
Trilobites 1.65" on 4.4x3.3" rock
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#154811
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