AUTHENTIC DROTOPS MEGALOMANICUS TRILOBITE FOSSIL

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ATHENTIC DROTOPS MEGALOMANICUS TRILOBITE FOSSIL Age: Devonian Period: 395 - 345 million years ago Location: Hamar Laghdad Formation of the Atlas Mountains Matrix size: approx 3" x 2.2" Every trilobite collector should have a Drotops of this quality in their collection. This is an impressive trilobite fossil. It is a fabulous Drotops megalomanicus from the Devonian of Morocco. This trilobite was meticulously prepared in Erfoud in Morocco . Tri-lob-ite means three-part-body in Latin. Trilobite bodies can be divided into three axial (long direction) lobes. Trilobites were among the first of the arthropods, a phylum of hard-shelled creatures with multiple body segments and jointed legs (although the legs, antennae and other finer structures of trilobites only rarely are preserved). They constitute an extinct class of arthropods, the Trilobite, made up of nine orders, over 150 families, about 5000 genera, and over 15,000 described species. New species of trilobites are unearthed and described every year. This makes trilobites the single most diverse group of extinct organisms, and within the generalized body plan of trilobites there was a great deal of diversity of size and form. The smallest known trilobite species is just under a millimeter long, while the largest include species from 30 to 70 cm in length (roughly a foot to two feet read more

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