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UK
/tɹˈaɪləbˌaɪt/
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NOUN
- an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts
How To Use trilobite In A Sentence
- Blind, totally eyeless trilobites have given us another indication of the range of trilobite habits and habitats.
- Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite. Memory Wall
- The Permian extinction, 244 million years ago, devastated the marine biota: tabulate and rugose corals, blastoid echinoderms, graptolites, and most crinoids died out, as did the last of the trilobites. Paleozoic
- We describe the oldest chiton, which is the oldest animal fossil, the oldest evidence for the trilobite ancestor; we believe we've solved the Shonisaur murder mystery; and now we're announcing the identity of this serial killer, the Triassic kraken. NPR Topics: News
- Tadpole shrimp have outlived dinosaurs, trilobites and mammoths.
- Many of the trilobite fossils found commonly elsewhere in the world are these empty suits of armour.
- The sixty pages on palaeontology emphasize geology and stratigraphy and chiefly illustrate trilobites.
- The section is very fossiliferous, with an abundant brachiopod, bryozoan, coral, and phacopsid trilobite assemblage.
- She (at least, I think it's a she) finally sends her remote meck Trilobite to search for signs of life. REVIEW: The Godwhale by T.J. Bass
- They look for trilobites and fossilised sea creatures that are preserved in the stone along the path, easily spottable for amateur fossil hunters.