Trilobita — Overview

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Fossil arthropod, one of the dominant forms of life during the Cambrian and Ordovician periods. Still abundant and diverse through the end of the Devonian period. Attained spectacular morphologic and taxonomic diversity over 300 million years of evolutionary history.

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Source: Trilobites Online Database

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