The most familiar and abundant species of trilobites in North America may have followed an exotic survival strategy. Elrathia kingii, found in Middle Cambrian formations in Utah, lived exclusively in ...

Add in the fact that they were highly adaptable and occupied a variety of ecosystems, and you start to understand why there ...

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 ...

A fossil site in Morocco has been called the “Pompeii of trilobites” as it contains sublimely detailed fossilised moulds of ...

In this activity, your class will use images of trilobite fossils to explore how fossils preserve information about ancient life. They will sort the fossils into orders (closely related groups) by ...