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The trilobite body is divided into three major sections : 1 – cephalon; 2 – thorax; 3 – pygidium. Trilobites are so named for the three longitudinal lobes: 4 – right pleural lobe; 5 – axial lobe; 6 – left pleural lobe; the antennae and legs are not shown in these diagrams.
In contrast to the related Phacops, Eldredgeops generally has a raised ridge along the ventral margin of the cephalon, the glabella is more inflated, the lateral parts of the preoccipital ring are rectangular (and not round), the palpebral area and palpebral lobe are larger than in P. latifrons (the type species of Phacops), and there is no ...
Pages in category "Trilobites of North America" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Elrathia is a genus of trilobite belonging to Ptychopariacea known from the mid-Cambrian of Laurentia (North America). [2] E. kingii is one of the most common trilobite fossils in the USA [3] locally found in extremely high concentrations within the Wheeler Formation in the U.S. state of Utah. [4] E. kingii has been considered the most ...
Eldredgeops rana (formerly Phacops rana) is a species of trilobite from the middle Devonian period. Their fossils are found chiefly in the northeastern United States , and southwestern Ontario . Because of its abundance and popularity with collectors, Eldredgeops rana was designated the Pennsylvania state fossil by the state's General Assembly ...
Eldredgeia is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, suborder Phacopina, family Calmoniidae. This genus comes from the Devonian of South America and South Africa , usually found in nodules. The trilobite Eldredgeia venusta , from Bolivia , is the most common South American trilobite on today's fossil market, and even then it is not all ...
Encrinurus is a long-lived genus of phacopid trilobites that lived in what are now Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America from the middle Ordovician to the early Devonian from 472 to 412.3 mya, existing for approximately
Most trilobites with this life history strategy lived in warm, low latitude waters, in which planktonic, non-adult like larvae may be ideal at surviving in. During the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event, the widespread onset of cold water conditions and anoxia may have instead favoured species that produced small numbers of large eggs, from ...