Trilobites
These complex organs helped trilobites judge their surroundings.
What are compound eyes?
An incredibly old group of arthropods, these trilobite analogues have remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.
What are horseshoe crabs?
What is the Louvre?
Their teeth were once called "dragon tounges"
What are sharks?
This period is known for an abundance of amphibians, insects, and treelike plants.
What is the Carboniferous?
Trilobites belong to this group of armored invertebrates.
What are arthropods?
Despite resembling a certain arachnid, these paleozoic crustatians have little relation to scorpions.
What are Euripterids?
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What is "Comedian?"
The word "Ichthyosaur" was coined on this year, 8 years before the word dinosaur
When was 1834?
This early period is known for a veritable "explosion" of life.
What is the Cambrian?
Trilobites do this to defend themselves.
What is enrollment?
These early bony fish are known by the name "plate-skins"
What are Plachoderms?
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What is Sotheby's?
When they were first discovered, the fossils of these squid relatives were called "snakestones"
What are ammonites?
The only know period where arthropods filled most dominant neiches.
What is the Silurian?
Trilobites go through these three developmental periods in their life.
What are Protaspid, Meraspid, and Holaspid?
The world's first apex predator, this 3-foot long invertebrate thrived during the Cambrian.
What is Anomalocaris?
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What is "F L A M I N G O N E?"
In 2004, these fossils put forth an important "missing link" between fish and amphibians.
What is Tiktaalik?
The so-called "age of fish"
What is the Devonian?
An early order of mostly eyeless trilobites.
What is AGNOSTIDA?
This unnasuuming worm-like animal was one of the first chordates.
What is Pikia?
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What is 12?
In Cambrian outcrops, you will probably find sponges, mollusks, trilobites, and these organisms sometimes called "sea lilies"
What are Crianoids?
The last period in the Paleozoic, well known for it's catestrophic mass extinction.
What is the Permian?