Trilobitophilia.(Brief Article)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-MAY-01

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For nearly 300 million years, trilobites flourished in the world's oceans. It took the worst mass extinction, at the end of the Permian Period, to stop their long run. Just as dinosaurs and mammals are icons for the following eras, these hard-shelled, crustacean-like animals have come to represent the...

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