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A 'trilobite Pompeii': Perfectly preserved fossils of ancient sea critters found buried in volcanic ash
More than 22,000 species of trilobite have been named. This is largely because the trilobite exoskeleton was made of a mineral called calcite, which fossilized very easily. However, fossils ...
Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group
Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which ...
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Richard Fortey, palaeontologist whose work on trilobites changed ideas about how the continents moved
Fortey’s first foray into popular science was The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past, which was named Natural World Book of the Year in 1993. Trilobite! An Eyewitness to ...
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Trilobite research
We study trilobites from four periods of the Palaeozoic: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian. Our research covers trilobite taxonomy, phylogeny, functional morphology, biogeography, and ...