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Morocco ordovician trilobite


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This little spherical trilobite is given to me as a gift by a French friend in an mineral and fossil exhibit in Beijing, who said it must be a Morocco ordovician species.

Is it possible for me to get to know more here?

 

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We'll need better pictures (view from directly above)  of the cephalon and the pygidim, to have any success with an ID.  

Back up a bit from the subject, as the ruler is in focus but the trilobite is not. 

 

 

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Looks somewhat similar to Bavarilla zemmourensis. The pygidium has the telltale appearance of a phacopid. I can't really make out the cephalon features very well in this image. Is there still some matrix to remove, or is it completely effaced? 

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15 hours ago, Kane said:

Looks somewhat similar to Bavarilla zemmourensis. The pygidium has the telltale appearance of a phacopid. I can't really make out the cephalon features very well in this image. Is there still some matrix to remove, or is it completely effaced? 

I have no idea. either way, the blue stuff is very hard,  to even leave a scratch on it.  considering fine features are already broken down in many places, there is little I could do (with a needle or some chemicals )

 

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