Estoniops panderi, Ordovician trilobite fossil. Trilobites were arthropods that fed as they crawled on the seabed. They lived between 500 and 300 mill

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Estoniops panderi, Ordovician trilobite fossil. Trilobites were arthropods that fed as they crawled on the seabed. They lived between 500 and 300 million years ago and are now extinct. This specimen dates from the Middle Ordovician, and was found in the Llanvirn Series, Duboviki Formation, at 'Duboviki' on the River Volchov, St Petersburg, Russia. The glabella is deeply furrowed and the eyes are large and turret-like. The axis has deep furrows and the pleurae are deeply incised. This specimen is 3 centimetres long.

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