prehistoric trilobites replicas
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Acadoparadoxides Trilobite Replica
Most redlichiids are rather flat (or have low dorso-ventral convexity) and their exoskeleton typically has an oval outline. Each back edge of the headshield (or cephalon) very often carries a…
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Ammonite Hophites Deutatus Albieno
Ammonites or Daghestanites were active predators, and they themselves were often eaten by fish and marine reptiles. The fossils are almost always found with the outer compartment broken off, probably…
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Ammonite Hophites Shell Replica
Ammonites lived throughout the seas and swam by squirting water in one direction, pushing themselves along the sea floor. Ammonites appeared 425 million years ago and were very common ocean…
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Dalmanites Trilobite Replica
The frontal lobe is vaulted. The eye is moderate to large, about half as long as the cheek. The “seem” that is visible from the ventral side is wide and…
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Giant Ammonite Dactylioceras Fossil
Dactylioceras commune has shells reaching a diameter of 9–11 centimeters (3.5–4.3 in). Usually the average diameter reach about 24.1 millimeters (0.95 in), while the average width is 8.20 millimeters (0.323…
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Homotelus Bromidensis Trilobite Replica
Homotelus Bromidensis Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appeared in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian.
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Isotelus Maximus Trilobite Replica
Isotelus Maximus, genus of trilobites (extinct arthropods) restricted to Europe and North America during the Ordovician Period (about 488 million to 444 million years ago).
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Phacops Rana Africana Trilobite
In order to protect themselves from predators, they would roll into a ball with its hard exoskeleton on the outside as protection. Many other trilobites possessed the same ability, but Phacops…
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Trilobite Conglomerated Slab
They had many lifestyles; some moved over the seabed as predators, scavengers, or filter feeders, and some swam, feeding on plankton. Some even crawled onto land.
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Trilobite Phacops rana matrix
The most striking feature of the morphology of Phacops rana or Eldredgeops rana and its relatives is their eyes. These differed from the eyes of most trilobites in having comparatively…