PAIR OF "WINGED" TRILOBITES

PAIR OF "WINGED" TRILOBITES

Harpes perradiatus 

Ordovician

Erfoud, Southern Morocco

Each fossil 5 cm in length, presented on their matrices (10 x 9.5 cm and 9 x 4.5 cm), housed in a custom vitrine. 

An unusual, aerodynamically-shaped pair of Trilobites. Trilobites are a class of marine arachnomorph arthropods that inhabited the seas during the Paleozoic Era, from the Cambrian through the Permien period. They existed in oceans for over 300 million years, with last of them disappearing during the mass extinction at the end of the Permien period, 250 million years ago —making them one of the most successful species to ever live. This trilobite has the appearance of an alien creature, making it hard to imagine that they once inhabited our planet in multitudes.