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  • Metacanthina issoumourensis


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    Taxonomy

    Trilobite

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Trilobita
    Order: Phacopida
    Family: Acastidae
    Genus: Metacanthina
    Species: Metacanthina issoumourensis
    Author Citation Le Maître

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Paleozoic
    Period: Devonian
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Early
    International Age: Pragian

    Stratigraphy

    Lhandar Formation

    Provenance

    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Dimensions

    Length: 4.7 cm

    Location

    Lghaft, Morocco
    Morocco

    Comments

    This is a beautiful, 4.7cm long specimen of Metacanthina issoumourensis (Morzadec, 2001), a fairly common species from the Devonian of Morocco. It was quarried near Lghaft. There has been light restoration on the glabella, but otherwise the shell is intact.   




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