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This well-preserved Flexicalymene Trilobite Pair from Morocco 50*40*37mm weighs 75g. The Flexicalymene is a genus of Ordovician trilobites prevalent in the Middle Ordovician to early Silurian periods. That is about 400 million years ago. They are widely found in Morocco, North America, and the UK.

It was sourced locally in Morocco by our direct supplier, Nicolaas Gadd. Nic travels personally to locations in Europe, North Africa and elsewhere where rarer fossils and meteorites are found. He deals directly with the miners and their representatives to source amazing specimens suitable for collectors.

Trilobites were a group of marine arachnomorph arthropods that are now long extinct. They were hard-shelled, segmented creatures. They lived from 570 million to 250 million years ago. Their first appearance in the fossil record defines the beginning of the Early Cambrian period.

The trilobites were among the most successful of all early animals. Trilobites reproduced sexually. They moulted their hard shell when their body grew too large and underwent a series of life stages. They lived in a variety of marine environments during their existence and flourished in the world’s oceans throughout the lower Palaeozoic era. There was then a lengthy decline to extinction in the Devonian, when nearly all the Trilobite orders died out. The last Trilobites disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian, about 250 million years ago.

Chakra: Root Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra

Colour: grey, black, red

Emotional: fortitude, patience

Mental/intellectual: creativity, leadership, management, perseverance, strength

Spiritual: abundance, ancient knowledge, awakening, growth, past lives, prosperity, protection, truth

Astrology: Capricorn, Virgo, Earth

Number: 8

Rarity: rare

Mineral Class: fossils