Posts Tagged ‘trilobite’

WFS News: Trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere reconstructed

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record dates to 521 million years ago in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, when the continents were still inhospitable to most life forms. Few groups of animals adapted as successfully as trilobites, which were arthropods that lived on the […]

WFS News: Trilobite-like arthropod Agnostus pisiformis.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev With the help of an artist, a geology professor at Lund University in Sweden has figuratively speaking breathed life into one of science’s most well-known fossil species; Agnostus pisiformis. The trilobite-like arthropod lived in huge numbers in Scandinavia a half-billion years ago. Today, this extinct species provides important […]

Pyritized in situ trilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For the past two years, Western Illinois University Assistant Professor of Geology Thomas Hegna has been part of a three-member team conducting research on what are believed to be the first-ever discovered trilobite eggs paired with a fossil of the segmented creature. The ancient eggs, believed to be […]