Trilobite fossil. Hands holding a fossilised Acaparadoxides briaerus trilobite. This trilobite lived during the Middle Cambrian period (around 540-523

---

Trilobite fossil. Hands holding a fossilised Acaparadoxides briaerus trilobite. This trilobite lived during the Middle Cambrian period (around 540-523 million years ago). The trilobites are an extinct group of marine arthropods with a hard, segmented shell that is divided into 3 sections. Most were bottom dwellers, feeding and living on organic sediment on the ocean floor. Found in Morocco.

---

Size: 5147px × 4262px
Photo credit: © SINCLAIR STAMMERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: acaparadoxides, african, ancient, animal, animals, arthropodan, briaerus, cambrian, extinct, fossil, fossilised, fossils, geology, hands, holding, invertebrate, invertebrates, marine, middle, moroccan, morocco, north, palaeontology, paleontology, presenting, preserved, rock, segmented, segments, shell, single, solitary, spikes, spiky, spines, spiny, stone, trilobite, zoology