Drotops armatus for sale

Description

Large Drotops armatus for sale. Spikes, eye lenses, bumps and lumps are showing in good preservation. Two spikes on the right eye are missing and couple spikes on the thorax missing the tips.

The initial crack goes from the right side to the left side of the thorax and under the cephalon. Two spikes on the right eye are missing and a couple on the thorax missing the tips.

These cracks are not avoidable. They occur, when quarry workers crack the rock in order to find fossils. Fossils don’t grow on rocks, they hide inside. Unfortunately in the layers of the hardy Devonian rocks, fossils appear in all directions. Once the rock is broken the fossil is discovered. Due to the nature of these rocks and the position of the fossil, the fossil is broken too. Experienced Preparators take on the task to glue them back together and to chisel or grind them out. In general cracks and some preparation marks are not avoidable and show that the fossil is real and not faked.

Moroccan Trilobites like this large Drotops armatus for sale, are often master pieces of preparation art. Mining of fossil and their preparation is a great source of income for the people, that live in the Sahara desert. Whole villages depend on it.

The Trilobite measures 5.25″ or 13.4 cm. Some preparation marks are showing. A small patch seems repaired beside the right eye.

Devonian trilobites from Morocco can be seen in the galery of the American Museum for Natural History, link here:  https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/fossil-invertebrate-collection/trilobite-website/gallery-of-trilobites/devonian-period-trilobites/devonian-trilobites-of-morocco-africa-alphabetized

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