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Description: | Trilobites are very common fossils in the Silurian rocks exposed at Dudley. Looking like overgrown woodlice, they probably crawled over the seabed scavenging for food. Trilobites grew by shedding their shells (moulting) and then growing a new one. This means that moulted fragments are more common as fossils than complete shells. This particular example is a tail, or pygidium, of a trilobite and probably represents part of a moulted shell. | 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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