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Hopefully we'll have better luck with this one than my last post :)

This is a trilobite which I was given as a Christmas gift many years ago.  I haven't the slightest idea where it may have come from, but I think it may be from the order Phacopida.  If anyone can tell what it is as well as where/when it could be from I would greatly appreciate it!

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Hollardops mesocristata (Le Maître ,1952), Family Acastidae, Order Phacopida. Middle Devonian in age, from one of the many sites in Morocco. 

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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From Morocco. 

 

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Yes, i think it's Hollardops mesocristata (it usually is) Middle Devonian; Morocco. 

Here is one of my badly prepped ones. 

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Thanks!  For future reference, does anybody know of any good trilobite ID resources such as dichotomous keys?

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