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Trilobites
When did Paradoxides exist?
Paradoxides, genus of trilobites (an extinct group of arthropods) found as fossils in Middle Cambrian rocks of North America and western Europe (the C...
What is a tribolite?
What type of animal is a trilobite?Do trilobites still exist?Is a trilobite a dinosaur?What killed trilobites?Why did trilobites go extinct?Do trilob...
Where is the trilobite found?
Their fossilized remains are found in the rugged mountains of western Canada, the rolling plains of eastern Europe, the scorching deserts of northern ...
What is present day realitive of the trilobite?
Their closest living relative is the horseshoe crab. Many trilobites were capable of rolling up in a ball, probably for protection from predators. Wha...
Fossils such as trilobites that can be used to estabish the age of rocks are called?
Trilobite fossils are found worldwide, with thousands of known species. Because they appeared quickly in geological time, and moulted like other arthr...
What did phacops eat?
It was a rounded animal, with a globose head and large eyes, and probably fed on detritus. Phacops is often found rolled up ("volvation"), a biologica...
What time period did trilobites live in?
They appeared abruptly in the early part of the Cambrian Period and came to dominate the Cambrian and early Ordovician seas. A prolonged decline then ...
What is a triolbites?
What kind of animal is a trilobite?Is a trilobite a dinosaur?What are trilobites now?What is special about the trilobites?Did horseshoe crabs evolve ...
When did trilobite exist?
Trilobites first appeared during the Cambrian Period (about 520 million years ago) and disappeared at a major extinction event at end of the Permian P...