Fossil Trilobite
Flexicalymene
450 million years
Ordovician period
Ktaoua Formation, Morocco.
These specimens often show a degree of repair/reconstruction. However, they are at least 80% original fossil.
Trilobites were marine Arthropods. Now fully extinct, they were among the first creatures to exit with a solid body. Trilobites were a wildly varied group of creatures. They became extinct during the great Permian Mass Extinction 252 million years ago.
8 x 4cm