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Trilobites are excellent stratigraphic markers of the Cambrian period: researchers who find trilobites with alimentary prosopon, and a micropygium, have found Early Cambrian strata. [53] Most of the Cambrian stratigraphy is based on the use of trilobite marker fossils.
The Cambrian (/ ˈ k æ m b r i. ə n, ˈ k eɪ m-/ KAM-bree-ən, KAYM-) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. [5] The Cambrian lasted 51.95 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran period 538.8 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Ordovician Period 486.85 Ma.
Trilobites were arthropods, like modern insects, spiders, millipedes and crustaceans, and they evolved into a wide range of shapes and sizes before going extinct around 252 million years ago. Most ...
The Artiopoda is a grouping of extinct arthropods that includes trilobites and their close relatives. It was erected by Hou and Bergström in 1997 [5] to encompass a wide diversity of arthropods that would traditionally have been assigned to the Trilobitomorpha. Trilobites, in part due to abundance of findings owing to their mineralized ...
Shallow shelf trilobite faunas were hit particularly hard. Trilobites that inhabited the outer edges of shelf environments and slope environments, on the other hand, were minimally impacted by the event. [1] Many trilobites appear to have been adapted to the anoxic conditions of the Cambrian through symbiosis with the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. [6]
Fauna I, known as "Cambrian", described as a "Trilobite-rich assemblage", encompasses the bulk of the fossils which first appeared in the Cambrian explosion, and largely became extinct in the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event.
Asaphiscus wheeleri, a trilobite from the Cambrian Wheeler shale of Utah. This list of trilobites is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the Arthropod class Trilobita, excluding purely vernacular terms.
Calymene Brongniart, 1822, is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, suborder Calymenina, that are found throughout North America, North Africa, and Europe in primarily Silurian outcrops. [2] Calymene is closely related to Flexicalymene, and both genera are frequently found enrolled. [3] Calymene trilobites are small, typically 2 cm in ...