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Orthoceratites & trilobites

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-glb99-00043

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 25 cm

Squid-like Orthoceratites (genus Orthoceras) attempt to make meals of trilobites of the species Asaphus kowalewskii at the bottom of an Ordovician sea 480 million years ago. Also featured is a sea star (AKA starfish), an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea; palm-like Crinoids (AKA sea lilies); Rugosa (AKA Tetracoralla); Favistina stellata coral; and Vauxia sponges.

Keywords for this photo:

2012 - ANIMAL - ARTHROPOD - EARTH - FAUNA - FLORA - FOSSIL - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MOLLUSCA - OCEAN - ORDOVICIAN - ORTHOCERAS - PALEONTOLOGY - PALEOZOIC - PLANET - SEAFLOOR - TRILOBITE - WATER -