Location: Ofatene, Alnif, Morocco

This professional prepared trilobite is a nice example of the species. Check out the detail on the eyes of this piece! As with most specimens from Morocco the matrix is in several pieces and has been reassembled.

Age: Lower Devonian

Size: 3.25 x 3.25 x 1.252 inches Trilobite if uncurled is 2.15 inches.

Trilobites flourished to over 600 species throughout the Paleozoic world, comprising one of the earliest known groups of arthropods. They are most closely related to modern horseshoe crabs.

Trilobites evolved profound adaptations that place them among the most successful of all early animals. They patrolled, hunted, and scoured the oceans before becoming extinct.

Trilobite means, “Three lobes.” and occupied different levels of the food chain including predator, scavenger, and prey.