Trilobite - Daguinaspis sp.
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ITEM# TRILO-Morocco-0051
$400.00
$400.00
Lower Cambrian (520-516 mya)
Amouslek Formation
Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
ITEM# TRILO-Morocco-0051
This is an excellent example of the rare trilobite Dauinaspis sp. from the Lower Cambrian of Morocco. Daguinaspis sp. is a member of the Order Redlichiida, Family Fallotaspidoidea.
Daguinaspis sp.is an early Cambrian trilobite genus found in Morocco. Like the closely related Choubertella and Wolynaspis, but unlike any other Fallotaspidoidea, it lacks genal spines.
The Fallotaspidoidea are a superfamily of trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods. It lived during the Lower Cambrian and species occurred on all paleocontinents except for the Gondwana heartland (currently Latin America, most of Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and China). A member of this group, Profallotaspis jakutensis, has long been the earliest known trilobite, but recently the redlichiid Lemdadella has now been claimed as occurring even earlier.
As with most early trilobites, the Fallotaspidoidea have an almost flat exoskeleton, that is only thinly calcified, and has crescent-shaped eye ridges.
This very nice specimen (positive/negative) measures approximately 1 3/4 inches long on a matrix measuring 3 7/8 inches by 2 ¾ inches.
Amouslek Formation
Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
ITEM# TRILO-Morocco-0051
This is an excellent example of the rare trilobite Dauinaspis sp. from the Lower Cambrian of Morocco. Daguinaspis sp. is a member of the Order Redlichiida, Family Fallotaspidoidea.
Daguinaspis sp.is an early Cambrian trilobite genus found in Morocco. Like the closely related Choubertella and Wolynaspis, but unlike any other Fallotaspidoidea, it lacks genal spines.
The Fallotaspidoidea are a superfamily of trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods. It lived during the Lower Cambrian and species occurred on all paleocontinents except for the Gondwana heartland (currently Latin America, most of Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and China). A member of this group, Profallotaspis jakutensis, has long been the earliest known trilobite, but recently the redlichiid Lemdadella has now been claimed as occurring even earlier.
As with most early trilobites, the Fallotaspidoidea have an almost flat exoskeleton, that is only thinly calcified, and has crescent-shaped eye ridges.
This very nice specimen (positive/negative) measures approximately 1 3/4 inches long on a matrix measuring 3 7/8 inches by 2 ¾ inches.