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Description: | These animals are called Trilobites because the jointed shells which protected their bodies are divided into three parts. These three parts are shown very well in this specimen. It has a well-developed head and a middle section called a thorax. This consists of a series of flexible plates. It also has a well-developed 'tail' called a pygidium that consists of a series of plates that are fused together. Trilobites like this one are thought to have crawled across the seabed scavenging for food. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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