Exceptional, Enrolled Morocops Spinifer - Top Quality!

This is an exceptional specimen if one of the less frequently seen phacopids from Morocco, Morocops spinifer. This species is completely covered in small tubercles. It takes a very skilled preparitor and a lot of time to prepare one without abrading away these tubercles. This specimen is enrolled and left partially embedded in the limestone it was found in creating a display base. It's .95" wide and would have been about 1.8" long if outstretched. A true collector specimen!

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
Morocops spinifer
LOCATION
Assa Area, Morocco
FORMATION
Khebchia Formation
SIZE
.95" wide, about 1.8" long
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#170755
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