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Description
Adult 3D Symphusurus ebbestadi
Fezouata Trilobite Fossil
Fezouata Shale, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Zagora, Morocco.
Restoration details: the fossil has 0% restoration; it has been mechanically prepared to display. The slab was glued and consolidated with proper materials, as it was broken.
Locality: Fezouata Formation, Zagora Region, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
Taxonomy:
Species: Symphysurus ebbestadi n. sp. (Gutiérrez-Marco et. al, 2019); Family: Nileidae; Order: Asaphida; Class: Trilobita.
Dimensions:
Trilobite: 5.0 x 2.9 cm
Matrix: 16.8 x 11.4 cm
Weight: 345 g
Description:
Presented is a well prepared slab with one complete Symphysurus trilobite.
The trilobite is totally 3D-inflated in its original position. Microscopically prepared just with air-scribe. No sandblasting in order not to remove exoskeleton details and natural colours.
The Fezouata Shale it's a very fossiliferous area that changed the taxonomy and knowledge in general of several groups (trilobites, other Arthropods, soft-bodied creatures, Echinoderms) and helped to better understand the evolution of life.
It has been compared to the very well know Burgess Shale, at North America. In fact, it is, in late years, a prolific area in fossil discoveries that changed the fossil taxonomy of several groups of organisms and that helped to better understand the evolution of all the life on Earth. Not only several trilobite species have been newly documented there: some other Arthropods (like the famous Anomalocarids), soft-bodied creatures (like Furca sp. and others) and Echinoderms are other important groups found and studied there, among thousands of species.
Authenticity & Preparation
100% natural – no painting, no shadowing, no composite additions.
No restoration — the fossil has 0% restoration; it has been mecanichally prepared to display. The slab was glued and consolidated as it was broken.
Perfect for serious collectors and museums seeking a scientifically significant, display-ready Cambrian fossil assemblage. This unique plate represents the only know trilobite-bearing Lagerstätten in Africa and deserves a place in any institutional or private collection.
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