Spine-On-Spine Koneprusia Trilobite - Very Special Prep!

This is a very special piece with incredible preparation. It features and exquisitely prepared Koneprusia trilobite next to a small enrolled reedops. Despite it's small size the Koneprusia even has preserved spines on it's spines, a testament to the quality of the work which would have taken many dozens of hours.

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
Koneprusia dahmani
LOCATION
Ofaten, Morocco
SIZE
Koneprusia 1" long including spines
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#77599
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