The Dinosaur Store - Trilobites

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The name, trilobite, comes from the three distinct portions of their segmented body. The hard exoskeleton allowed good preservation as a fossil and served as defensive armor, but had to be shed periodically as the animal grew. These many legged arthropods roamed the sandy bottoms of the seas and coral reefs in search of food. The trilobite is the earliest animal known to possess vision. The remarkable construction and preservation of trilobite eyes enable scientists to study the development of a sensory organ which is only rarely preserved in other organisms. As a group, trilobites survived for more than three hundred million years, from the Cambrian to the Permian period.

Fossil Trilobite

Amphyxina bellatula

Ordovician, 450 Million years ago

Maquoketa Formation

Pike County, Missouri

Trilobites are approximately 1/4" to 3/8" in length.

Included case measures 1.75" in diameter.

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$16.

Fossil Trilobite #8

Phacops rana africanis

Devonian 360 Million Years Ago

Morocco

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Matrix measures 3.5" long x 2.75" wide

Trilobite measures 2.25"

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	Fossil Trilobite #9 Paradoxides sp. Cambrian period, 525 million years ago Anti-Atlas Region, Northern Sahara Desert, Morocco Measures 14" high x 11.5" wide SOLD Paradoxides is one of the oldest and largest trilobites and one of the first creatures on the planet to develop sight. A large specimen and a great addition to any fossil collection.
	Fossil Trilobite #10 Paradoxides sp. Cambrian period, 525 million years ago Anti-Atlas Region, Northern Sahara Desert, Morocco Measures 13" high x 11" wide $250. Paradoxides is one of the oldest and largest trilobites and one of the first creatures on the planet to develop sight. A large specimen and a great addition to any fossil collection.


LARGE RARE MOROCCAN TRILOBITE Fossil Trilobite #11 *Selenopeltis sp.* Ordovician 450 million years ago Morocco $650. Selenopeltis is a spectacularly large genus found in Morocco. The genus gets its name from the many flowing appendages of the thorax which give it the superficial look of hair.


Fossil Trilobite #TRD3 *Dicranurus monstrosus* Devonian 360 million years ago Megrane Formation, Morocco $1,500. Matrix measures 3.5"h x 4" w The Dicranurus monstrosus must have been one of the most terrifying trilobite to all its fellow invertebrates. It is well named looking like a "monster". Large and long spines protruding out from its creepy body, this bottom-dwelling creature of the prehistoric seas would have been a marvel to see alive creeping across the ocean floor. The Dicranurus monstrosus is one of the most sought-after species of rare spiny trilobites and very few authentic specimens ever make it to the public market.