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Jbel Issoumour Trilobite Beds
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: Erbenochile, scutellids, goniatites, brachiopods.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Devonian trilobites, 'trilobite capital of the world'
Journal of Paleontology describes the Erbenochile Bed at Jbel Issoumour; commercial diggings supply the global trilobite trade
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Hand-dug pits and undercut ledges on scree slopesDesert heat, no water
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