07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite Claw Huge Carcharodontosaurus tooth

Huge Carcharodontosaurus tooth

The lithology of this body of sediment is characterized by the dominance of sandstones (also known as arenites) and fluvial gravel

It is conserved in its natural matrix of sandstone

University of California

the listed coordinates are those of the largest piece they recovered

07148 - Top Huge 4.72 Inch Drotops megalomanicus Middle Devonian Trilobite Claw Huge Carcharodontosaurus toothExtremely huge specimen, well prepared. Its size is enormous. It has tiny restorations made on its shell during its meticulous and long preparation. Nice eyes facets. Drotops is a genus of trilobites from the order Phacopida, family Phacopidae that lived during the Eifelian of the Middle Devonian. It was described by Struve in 1990 under type species Drotops megalomanicus. Their fossils are found in present day Morocco, specifically the Mader Region