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Trilobites: An Introduction

Palaeontologist, Hidden Horizons Director, Yorkshire Fossil Festival

Dr Liam Herringshaw

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We Welcome!

Visit trilobites.info – it’s brilliant! Which specimen catches your eye?

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Wh What is is a tr trilobite?

Edward Llwyd’s flatfish (1698)

Ogygiocarella debuchi Carmarthen, Wales (images from National Museum of Wales)

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Wh What is a trilobite?

(image from Wikimedia Commons)

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Tr Trilobites = = art rthropods

Regier et al. (2010) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08742

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Tr Trilobite variety

Which one of your 13 might NOT be a trilobite?

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Agn gnostics cs & par arad adoxes es

Image from trilobites.info

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Ca Cambr brian n or

• rigins

Cambrian arthropods (Dr David Legg)

Cambrian trilobites (Paterson et al., 2019)

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Or Ordovician diversity

Asaphus cornutus Ordovician, St Petersburg Anything note- worthy about it?

Also: Cybeloides girvanensis, Geragnostus callavei, Onnia superba

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Si Silurian sp sple lendour

Dudley Bug and the Black Country beauties

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On On a Mo Moroccan roll

Trilobites from the Devonian

• f Morocco

Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham

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En End = Permian

Image from trilobites.info

(image from Wikimedia Commons)

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Today’s slides are on www.fossilhub.org

Heads or tails? Trilo-sight Trilobite life

Paralejurus, Devonian Morocco (Wikimedia Commons)

• Q. What do you call a trilobite with no eyes?

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