Actually if you erase the tiny face off of the glabella, you have a pretty cute line drawing of a trilobite. Probably a calymenid from the Silurian or the late Ordovician.

Still, the tiny face amuses me sufficiently to share as is.

https://t.co/9ezT3KwVUl

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Good morning tweeps! It's and I'm in west Texas on my way to the 2023 in Arizona.

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Dare I? I do.

Don't forget ... if you have a question about a specific photo, it's better if you include that photo.

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Day 5: Asaphus! A little trilobite boi. I really enjoyed drawing this one.....I'll have to draw more trilobites later!

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Gabriceraurus mifflinensis, an extraordinarily beautiful trilobite from the of

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Take a look at some of the fantastic art created by YOU this in our exhibition space, like this poem by Urwah, Age 4.

https://t.co/a0kuZmTcyK

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Following 's recent tweet, here is another translucent trilobite for . Maybe not as complete, but with phosphatized 3D gut glands still stuck to the underside of the dorsal carapace 🤩! Maotunia sp. (Drumian Changhia Fm., China).

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The Knights of Ren probably took inspiration for their masks from trilobites.

This is Minirphaeus giganteus, which lived in the seas around 395 million years ago. (Image FossilMall)

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For I'm throwing back to our year-old paper on agnostids...you decide whether or not they qualify as https://t.co/LVRp8xRISl
Illustration by , one of many colleagues deserving of celebration on

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It's again, so here's a Walliserops on display at the . It's not clear what that crazy trident on its head was for, but some think it was like the horn of a rhinoceros beetle, which is used for fighting and digging among males. Devonian, Morocco.

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It’s the end of the semester for me, so here’s a really nice phacopid trilobite cephalon for The individual lenses are preserved and visible under a low power microscope, as are muscle scars (darker symmetrical lines & dots on the glabella).

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For here’s the inside of a Trilobite (Eldredgeops) cephalon I found. You can see the muscle scars for the limbs and stomach, as well as each individual lens in-situ. Also, the opening through which the intestines passed into the body.

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