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| Here is a nice specimen of a enrolled Harpes from Morocco. The trilobite presented on a massive and nice shaped piece of matrix. The trilobite has quite some restorations along the glue bonds. Especially in the area of the left cheek as well as the glabella and the eyes. The UV images give a good overview of the bondings and the restorations as well. Almost all Harpes Trilobites from Bou Dip show a more or less complex glue bonds. On the one hand is this because the Harpes limestone bank is quite massive in Bou Dip. On the other hand, a second control crack is usually made after the initial find crack to ensure that it is a complete Harpes with body. At the Bou Dip side are in addition to complete specimens, isolated head shields are relatively common. This Harpes species is still often labeld as Harpes perradiatus RICHTER, R. & E. 1943. This is likely tracible back to EBACH, M. and McNAMARA, K. J. 2002. They picture a Moroccan “Bou Dip Harpes” identified as the species perradiatus. However they look nothing alike the 1943 pictured holotype pictured by Rudolf and Emma Richter back in the day. The Bou Dip type does look mush more alike the type species Harpes macrocephalus GOLDFUSS, 1839 from the German middle Devonian of the Eifel Mountains. This trilobite is a decorative and well-preserved Harpes made from the Bou Dip site. The cephalon is about 47 mm long. | |||
Location: | Bou Dip , Maider Reg. , Morocco | ||
| Size: | about 31 mm wide | ||
| Age: | Middle Devonian, lower Eifilian, El Otfal Formation (about 390 mill. y.o.) | ||
Product no.: 10824