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Please Help Me ID This Moroccan Trilobite


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I believe this specimen was collected in the Fezouata Deposit.

I am hoping someone on the forum might know what species it might be.

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Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) is elevated to generic rank in Jell & Adrain 2003.  The margin of the cephalon including the genal spines, appear to be fabricated.

 

Corbacho, J., Vela, J.A. 2010

Giant Trilobites from Lower Ordovician of Morocco.

Museo Geològico del Seminari de Barcelona, Batalleria, 15:3-34  PDF LINK

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Thanks guys!

i knew it had a bit of restoration but it seemed like a nice piece and the price was right.

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