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ARTHROPODA Class Crustacea Sub Class Trilobita Unclassified Sample #1. An uncalssified Trilobite from Marissa Mine. most of the cephalon is missing, making identification very hard. However it is very similar to the Griffithides pictured below. |
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CLASS - Trilobita
ORDER - Ptychopariida FAMILY - Phillipsiidae GENUS/SPECIES - Griffithides sp. ROCK UNIT - Crawfordsville Formation
Only a handful of trilobite families survived the large extinction event that occurred during the Late Devonian Period (about 365 million years ago) and only the family Phillipsiidae continued to the end of the Paleozoic Era (about 240 million years ago). |