To learn about trilobites is to learn about the ever-changing face of our planet. Besides, you can afford a whole trilobite and hold it in your hand. In this page I want to try to tell a little bit about the world of the trilobites and how it relates to what we find today. There are some other very good websites and I will tell you about them. There are too many trilobites for anyone to hope to collect them all.
Different collectors have different reasons for what they put into their collections.
Some try to obtain representative examples of all of the major orders, superfamilies and families. Others concentrate on the species from a certain order, area or era. It is also possible to try to get a trilobite from every country or a set whose names begin with each letter of the alphabet. It seems that most collectors just get what appeals to them, and there is certainly enough variety to satisfy any taste or budget. The trilobites shown here are from my collection, and I hope that it continues to improve.