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EXTINCTIONS CHOICE - Huge Rare Bitten Phacops
MOROCCO • PHACOPS
Stock Number TTMPHX9
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Name:   Phacops nov. sp.
Age:  Devonian
Formation:  AM Limestone
Location:  Morocco
Size:  Trilobite is 3.1 inches long!
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Here is a spectacular trilobite. This is a new species of Phacops from the Devonian of Morocco. This type of Phacops has fewer eye facets than the more common Phacops speculator. This trilobite is quite prone and extremely 3-dimensional. The thick shell of the exoskeleton exhibits excellent detail. The large, compound eyes are extremely well preserved - the individual lenses are almost perfectly intact. The frames around the eyes are hexagonal - almost identical to Phacops crassituberculata from the Devonian of Ohio. But the rarest feature of this amazing trilobite is the missing area on the pleurons - it had been bitten! Some predator did a number on his right side! The bitten bug is beautifully showcased on the sculpted block of dense limestone. This is a superb specimen of this unusual Phacopid trilobite that just happens to have been a meal for some Devonian creature.

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