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Thoughts on this Harpes trilobite? looks good to me. matrix colour is different, split through a crack on the specimen. prep looks ok and eyes are nice and beady.

 

Anything anyone else notices/wants to comment on?

 

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Is this a Moroccan specimen? 

It looks like it.

The split through the middle occurs when the collector whacks a rock and it breaks through the middle of the specimen. From this the chap can determine the orientation of the trilobite.

Then the specimen is glued back together again and prepping starts with the knowledge of where the trilobite is. 

It looks genuine to me except for possible fiddling with the very ends of the spines. :)

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9 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Is this a Moroccan specimen? 

It looks like it.

The split through the middle occurs when the collector whacks a rock and it breaks through the middle of the specimen. From this the chap can determine the orientation of the trilobite.

Then the specimen is glued back together again and prepping starts with the knowledge of where the trilobite is. 

It looks genuine to me except for possible fiddling with the very ends of the spines. :)

 

Seller says it's from Morocco, yes

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