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Description: | This fossil is a trilobite. It comes from limestone deposits near Dudley in the West Midlands. Over 400 million years ago, this area was a shallow tropical sea with lots of coral reefs. Many species of trilobite lived in this environment. This specimen has been preserved ~rolled up~. Trilobites had flexible abdomens and could roll themselves up in response to danger | 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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