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Trilobites actually around?

I was making making some research on this kind of animal since they are my favorite animal in the prehistoric times. Seems that the underside of the animal is fossilized, don't they look so identical?

Chop of the tail and bam! a trilobite, seems that the tail of the species also disintegrates after it's death. I'm just astonished to see the animal.

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Re: Trilobites actually around?

Google insists that they are extinct, but I wouldn't be surprised if that is a close relative. I'd bet from Japan. They have odd things there like giant crabs.

EDIT: I searched a bit, and it looks like that bumpy part it the top of the fossilized animal, and the bottom of your alive animal. On your alive animal the bumpy part goes in, and in the fossil it puffs out.

What is the name of that animal? / What website did you find it on?

Last edited by SilverStar29 (May 4 2013 7:55:51 am)

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Re: Trilobites actually around?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

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Re: Trilobites actually around?

"It's also easy to see the superficial resemblance of horseshoe crabs to trilobite fossils, and one would assume these creatures had close kinship, but the horseshoe crabs' lack of calcite lenses in their eyes, as well as other structural differences clearly places them in a group outside of trilobite orders."

http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=trilob … bites.html

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