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Trilobite

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-glb99-00049

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 25 cm

Close-up of the face, eyes and antennae of a trilobite of the genus Phacops as it may have appeared 436 million years ago. The Phacops in this image is about six inches long. A marine arthropod of the class Trilobita, Phacops is characterized by a rounded body with a globose head. Phacops, like most trilobites, had a pair of sophisticated compound eyes composed of hundreds of rigid, crystalline lenses.

Keywords for this photo:

2014 - ANIMAL - ARTHROPOD - EARTH - FAUNA - FOSSIL - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - OCEAN - PALEONTOLOGY - PALEOZOIC - PHACOPS - PLANET - SEAFLOOR - SILURIAN - TRILOBITE - WATER -