Asaphid

I freely admit that I'm not 100% positive of the various identifications on this page. I sort of just group all large flat oval trilobites as asaphids until I get a better identification. Without further hesitation:

Asaphid

Family: Asaphidae

Era: Early- Middle Ordivician

Locality: Jbel Issoumour, Morocco

Size: Ranges from 5" to 12"+

Asaphid-1

Here is a basic individual. I believe that 95% of it is real but there appears to be a well-done repair job to the upper right cephalon, which may be missing. He does appear to have eye ridges, but I'd guess he's actually a blind trilobite. Then again, based on the size, he was probably quite an adept carnivore/scanvenger.

 

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