Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 80, No. 5 (Sep., 2006), pp. 981-992 (12 pages) Two new species of scutelluine styginid trilobites are described from Frasnian strata in the Virgin Hills Formation in the ...

A distinctive new genus (Xyoeax) and two new species (Xyoeax eponcus, Scutellum sudorum) of styginid trilobites are described from the late Early Devonian (Emsian) Murrindal Limestone of eastern ...

An international research team has found an eye system in trilobites of the suborder Phacopina from the Devonian (390 million years B.P.) that is unique in the animal kingdom: each of the about 200 ...

Perhaps the best-known group of ancient animals after dinosaurs, trilobites spent hundreds of millions of years coming up with crazy body plans and cruising the ocean before dying out some 250 million ...

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In the The Trilobite Book, Riccardo Levi-Setti’s text and photographs paint a stunning picture of the diversity and fascination of the “giant woodlice” THE past is a foreign country: they do ...

Trilobites of the suborder Phacopina had a unique eye in which about 200 large lenses in each eye spanned at least six individual facets, each of which in turn formed its own small compound eye. An ...