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 ...
Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which ...
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 ...
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 ...