30 Trilobites Fossils Mud Bugs from Morocco NO RESERVE

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A collection of 30 TRILOBITE mud bugs, ancient fossils from the 370 million year old Devonian Hamar Laghdad Formation Limestone, including some Phacops and other Gerastos granulosus species of Moroccan Trilobites - Djbel Issoumour area of the southern anti-Atlas Mountains near the Moroccan Sahara in North Africa, the fossils measure from 3/4" to 1 1/2 " on limestone matrix of 2 to 2 1/2 inches. Check my other NO RESERVE auctions all this month for more wholesale, rock-bottom, flats of Moroccan Trilobites and Ammonites.. The Paleozoic is often called the age of the trilobite. Trilobites particularly flourished in the oceans of the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, beginning around 540 million years ago, with a diminishing number of families persisting until the Permian. The number of families actually peaked in the Late Cambrian when an extinction event removed many. The morphological diversity actually peaked in the Ordovician. Many more families were removed at the end of the Ordovician 440 million years ago during a great ice age w ice sheets advanced to the equator. The diminished number of trilobite families that survived to the Silurian radiated into new and exotic forms, and still more exotic spiny and pustulose forms in the Devonian. The Devonian was punctuated by periods of rising seas that disrupted the reef systems w the trilobites flourished forcing selective adaptation. The end of the Devonian saw the Frasnian-Famennian event w only Proteus survived into the Carboniferous. Despite reduced ancestry, with decent with modification ruling, these trilobites filled the same ecological niches such that adaptation led to a repeating of many of the forms of their extinct cousins. While the genetic path was assuredly different, the newly evolved forms had recognizable morphological similitude with those long extinct. Regrettably, trilobites never truly recovered in the Carboniferous, with but a handful of genera extant by the Permian. Failing to adapt to deep-water habitats, their vulnerability to climatic change remained and led to their disappearance prior to yet another great mass extinction at the end of the Permian. The age of the trilobite yielded to the age of the insect. Check my other auctions for more of the 30 Moroccan Trilobites such as the Gerastos, Cornuproetus, Phacops, Metacanthina, Reedops, Paralajurus, Crotalus cephallus, Odontocile, Leonaspis, morocanites, Otarion, Dicranurus, Psycopyge, Scutellum, Neometacanthina, Kayserops, Thysanopeltis, Acastid, Astycoryphe, Aristoharpes, Harpes, Cheirurid, Ceratarges, Treveropyge, Dechinellid, Asteropygid, Konepruzia, Lobopyge and Heliopyge to name a few. Shipping weight of 7 pounds via USPS Priority or UPS GROUND insured mail service from 85740. ...No Reserve...Buyer to pay USPS Priority Mail shipping & handling fee to any USA location, will ship worldwide for actual cost, combine auctions to save on shipping fees...Personal check, money order or PAYPAL all get next day shipping...Check my other auctions for more great Estate and unique collectables from around the world and rare Moroccan fossils and minerals. Overseas rate via Airmail parcel post or economy ground parcel post if over four pounds - worldwide. You can calculate the actual Overseas Shipping rate by using the USPS postal calculator at: http://postcalc.usps.gov/ Just put your home country in the first pull-down menu and the weight from this listing to get the actual shipping fee. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY -Never a Reserve, everything offered is an ABSOLUTE AUCTION and starts at $0.99 and I honor the highest bid no matter what the cost to me --- I do not sell on approval! I have never accepted returns on any item unless I grossly misrepresent the "condition" only. I sell many kinds of items and majority of the items sold on EBay are old, even prehistoric, previously owned and t is no knowledge of their previous care. If you want to speculate on an item, that is "your risk ---- not mine". For this reason please don't assume an item i... read more

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