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Ophiuroidea

Era: Paleozoic

Period: Upper Ordovician

Stage: Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 M.a.)

Location: Bou Nemrou, El Kaid Rami, Errachidia Province, Morocco

Migration of Ampyx priscus

Era: Paleozoic

Stage: Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

Location: Beni Zouli, Zagora Province (Morocco)

Description: Unique piece from the Fezouata Formation. Scientists believe that trilobites migrated in groups along the seabed when they were buried and that the way they kept in physical contact could be either through their long antennae, or through pheromones, by chemical communication, like today's ants. This specimen is, without a doubt, a piece worthy of study.

Prognathodon curii

Era: Mesozoic

Period: Upper Cretaceous

Stage: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66 M.a.)

Location: Oued Zem (Morocco)

Quadrops flexuosus

Era: Paleozoic

Stage: Emsian (407.6- 393.3 M.a.)

Location: Djbel Issoumoure

Very difficult to find species.

Walliserops hammi

Era: Paleozoic

Stage: Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 M.a.)

Location: Foum Zguid, Jbel Gara el Zguilma (Morocco)

Formation: Timrhanrhart

Araucarioxylon sp.

Era: Mesozoic

Period: Triassic

Location: Ambilobe (Madagascar)

Anomalocaris & Symphysurus sp.

Era: Paleozoic

Period: Lower Ordovician

Stage: Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

Location: Beni Zouli, Zagora (Morocco)

Fulgurite

Provenance: Sahara Desert (Algeria)

Fulgurites, composed of lechatelierite, are the result of an atmospheric lightning strike on a sandy terrain whose temperature reaches 4,000 degrees Celsius, causing the silica grains to melt and become crystallized in the form of twisted or branched tubes.