Trilobites
Order Proetida Family Proetidae
Geologic Age: Devonian
Trilobite
is 25 mm long
Timrhanrhart Formation, Foum Ziguid , Morocco
Comment: The primary diagnostic feature of this taxon is tuberculose
cephalon for which the species is named is named. It is differentiated
from the
other subspecies in having longer genal spines The Proetidae were among
the
last of the
trilobites to go extinct in the Permian over 100 million years after
this one lived.
Also see:
Moroccan Trilobites |