Psychopyge Elegans Moroccan Trilobite
Item Description
Middle Devonian Period- C. 380 Million Years Ago
Order to which the fossil belongs: Phacopida
Informal name of the fossil: Trilobite
Nice example of an Psychopyge Elegans trilobite, a member of the order Phacopida. One of the most diagnostic features of this species are the high stalked eyes, a long pointed snout or rostrum, long genal spines, long plueral spines, and bulbous cephalon.
Trilobites are a fossil group of extinct marine arachnomorph arthropods that form the class Trilobite, one of the earliest known groups of arthropods. The name originates from their division into three longitudinal lobes, consisting of a raised central lobe also known as the axis, with two slightly flatter pleural lobes either side. Trilobites also have a head shield known as the cephalon, and on the axial region of the head shield (glabella) they were cheeks either side and well-developed eyes. The thorax consists of up to thirty segments, each would have had a limb but these are rarely preserved. A trilobite would have probably roll up their external skeletons to protect themselves in defence.
An eye-catching specimen on a stone matrix with good definition.
Matrix: W: 115mm x L: 153mm x D: 25mm approx
Trilobite: W: 90mm x L: 137mm approx
£495.00
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