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carved Trilobite Fossil Box
£27.00 – £30.00
A loose lidded wooden box in the shape of an Trilobite made from reclaimed Teak Approx size (in mm) is 85 x 80 x 34. Inner compartment is 16mm deep.
Trilobites are a group of extinct marine arthropods. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period (521 million years ago), and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic before slipping into a long decline, when, during the Devonian. The last trilobites finally disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 252 million years ago. Trilobites were among the most successful of all early animals, existing in oceans for almost 270 million years, with over 20,000 species having been found.
This model is from a Trilobite in Museum Victoria’s collection
