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Elrathia Trilobite

Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods of great diversity and importance as Paleozoic guide fossils. The body has three major divisions and the thorax had three lobed segments. They were bottom-feeding scavengers and predators.

 

The Elrathia trilobite is from the Middle Cambrian. This specime n is 13mm x 11mm.

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Uploaded on December 14, 2008
Taken on December 11, 2008