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Description: | This is the fossilised head (cephalon) of a trilobite. The well developed eyes suggest that this trilobite had good vision to enable it to detect food and also to evade predators. Trilobites had jointed skeletons which were regularly shed as the animal grew. The jointed nature of the skeleton meant that trilobites usually fell to pieces after they died. Complete fossils are therefore rare. Trilobites lived on the seabed and probably scavenged 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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