Trilobite Conglomerated Slab

$80.00

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.

Description

Trilobite Conglomerated Slab Replica measures 12.2×10.6 inches. Trilobite Conglomerated Slab is museum quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA. Trilobita, or Trilobitomorpha body division, head, abdomen and pygidium. Our precise trilobite can be used as a teaching tool, museum trilobite exhibit, home décor trilobite, or office décor trilobite.

Trilobites were any member of a group of extinct fossil arthropods easily recognized by their distinctive three-lobed, three-segmented form. Trilobites, exclusively marine animals, first appeared at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, about 542 million years ago, when they dominated the seas.

Trilobite or Trilobita meaning “three lobes” are a group of extinct marine arachnomorph arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest known groups of arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest known groups of arthropods.

The first appearance of Trilobita in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period, 521 million years ago, and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic before slipping into a long decline, when, during the Devonian, all trilobite orders except the Proetida died out.

The last extant trilobites or Trilobita finally disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 252 million years ago. They were among the most successful of all early animals, existing in oceans for almost 300 million years.

By the time they first appeared in the fossil record, they were already highly diversified and geographically dispersed. Because trilobites had wide diversity and an easily fossilized exoskeleton, they left an extensive fossil record. The study of their fossils has facilitated important contributions to biostratigraphy, paleontology, evolutionary biology, and plate tectonics.

Trilobita are often placed within the arthropod subphylum Schizoramia within the superclass Arachnomorpha (equivalent to the Arachnata), although several alternative taxonomies are found in the literature. More recently they have been placed within the Artiopoda, which includes many organisms that are morphologically similar, but are largely unmineralized.

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. Most lifestyles expected of modern marine arthropods are seen in trilobites, with the possible exception of parasitism.

Some Trilobita (particularly the family Olenidae) are even thought to have evolved a symbiotic relationship with sulfur eating bacteria from which they derived food. The largest were more than 45 centimeters long and may have weighed as much as 4.5 kilograms.

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Additional information

Weight 5 lbs
Dimensions 12.2 × 10.6 in
Trilobite Facts

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked):
†Artiopoda
Subphylum: †Trilobitomorpha
Class: †Trilobita