Large Drotops armatus Trilobite for sale from Morocco

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Large Drotops armatus Trilobite for sale, spiky like a cactus. Spikes, eye lenses, bumps and lumps are showing in good preservation. The Trilobite is in very nice preservation and has been prepared with great care. The initial crack goes from the right side of the thorax to the left side of the tail.

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. Pneumatic and air abrasive tools make the work of the preparation even more efficient. Features of the eyes, the body markings and spines can be easier prepared out. In general cracks and some preparation marks are not avoidable and show that the fossil is real and not faked. That can take up to 100 hours for some specimen.

Moroccan Trilobites like this large Drotops armatus Trilobite 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 4.5″ or 11.5 cm. It is hard to measure due to the position of the head. Some preparation marks are showing.

Devonian trilobites from Morocco can be seen in the web 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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