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Trilobite Crotalocephalus real?

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Seguidora-de-Isis Regular Member

Seguidora-de-Isis

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Good afternoon to all! Is this Trilobite Crotalocephalus Gibbus really real? From which part of Morocco is it discovered? What would be the Period, Era, and Millions of years?

 

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Is It real, or it's not real, that's the question!

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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Looks real to me. :)  

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FossilDudeCO Regular Member

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I would venture a guess that this comes from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. 

They are Devonian around 350myo.

 

This one looks good to me!

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This trilobite is certainly real. It is an example of of the Chierurid Crotalocephalina from the Lower Devonian (Pragian) of Morocco (not 350 mya - that would be Carboniferous), and could be from a number of sites, including localities such as Jbel Oufatene.

Regards, Jason

 

"Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies to label them as either ‘primitive’ or ‘unsuccessful’? Men have so far survived half a per cent as long."  - Richard Fortey, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution.

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Yours looks fine. The only thing I'd say is, they are often coated in some kind of black substance. I removed it from mine, which I documented here: 

 

 

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