Trilobite
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
label: Region
content: US Northeast (NY, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH, ME)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Paleozoic - Devonian - Middle
label: Notes
content: This specimen is a Trilobite. Trilobites are the earliest known arthropod, appearing in the fossil record 521 million years ago. These marine creatures roamed the oceans for 270 million years in abundance and are a common find for fossil hunters. Trilobites disappeared 252 million years ago, during the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, the largest mass extinction that ended approximately 57% of all families and 83% of genera. This specimen is a Phacops rana rana, a trilobite from the middle Denovian period (393.3 to 382.7 million years ago).
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 6
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Oct 2023
label: Stratigraphy
content: Windam Shale
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: North America, United States, New York, Erie County
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Phacops rana rana
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO50651
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Mandibulata, Trilobita, Phacopida, Phacopidae