TRIBOLITE FROM MORROCO

This specimen has been hand chipped out of its host rock-interesting specimen

WEIGHT 620 CTS

SIZE 68 X 35 X 17 MM APP

Trilobites ("three-lobes") are extinct arthropods that form the class Trilobita. They appeared in the Early Cambrian period and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during the Late Devonian extinction, all trilobite orders, with the sole exception of Proetida, died out. The last of the trilobites disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago.

Trilobites are very well-known, and possibly the second-most famous fossil group, after the dinosaurs.