FABULOUS SELENOPELTIS SP. TRILOBITE FROM MOROCCO N/R

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FABULOUS SELENOPELTIS SP. TRILOBITE FROM MOROCCO N/R Fabulous Selenopeltis Sp. Trilobite from Morocco with No Reserve presented by Sahara-imports ************************** You are bidding on this BEAUTIFUL AND REAL TRILOBITE PROFESSIONALLY PREPARED originally from ALNIF south east of MOROCCO dated from the Ordovician period (500 million years ago). ! Note that the piece was broken during shipping and repaired ! The size of the specimen is 13 " by 10 " (matrix included). Trilobites are hard-shelled, segmented creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago in the Earth's ancient seas. They are considered to be one of our planet's earliest complex life-forms and are one of the key signature creatures of the Paleozoic Era. Trilobites went extinct before dinosaurs even existed. Trilobites were the first creatures with a skeleton (Exoskeleton) so they were easily fossilized. Their shell is divided lengthwise into three lobes (hence, the name TRILOBITE meaning "three-lobed"): a central axial lobe, and two symmetrical pleural lobes that flank the axis. Morphologically, the trilobite body is divided into three major sections: - a cephalon (or head) with eyes, mouthparts and sensory organs such as antennae - a middle region called the thorax, made up of a number of overlapping segments (anyw from 2 to 61); - a pygidium (or read more

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