Acadoparadoxides briareus, Cambrian trilobite fossil. Trilobites were arthropods that fed as they crawled on the seabed. They lived between 500 and 30
Acadoparadoxides briareus, Cambrian 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 Cambrian, and was found in Sidi Abdallah ben Hadji bei, Mecissi, Morocco. It is a complete individual, with both librigenes intact. It has very large crescentic eyes and long genal spines. This specimen is centimetres long.
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