alent 0108 . Similar t i * eased together © thorax it is diy; ple ium iS known as the caudal shield or abd hich ; my 9 29 trilobated segments, es of 4 i metimes the posterior-end of the i with : spine, which is described as ‘telson’ sudal shield i8 provides x The possession of antennae and the bira; other appendages connect the trilobites with the eng atacter Of the cea, When the cephalon is larger than the pygiqi gre said to be heteropygous ; when they or ipien in game size, they are termed as Jsopygous, xi all a Covers the: is made 7 he trilobite 8 mately of the Geological range. Trilobites occur as_fossj fee rocks of palacozoic ages. They suddenly appease itn the cambrian and reached their maximum in cambrian and a jower- eriod. In silurian, they were still abundant but became less pe indevonian. With the end of the palaeozoic era, they Poreant extinct. Geological age of some important species : ” ne (i) Olenellus. Low-cambrian. (ii) Paradoxides. Mid-cambrian. (iii) Olenus. © Up-cambrian. (iv) Calymene. -Ordovician. (v) Ilaenus. Ordovician. (vi) Phacops. Silurian. (vii) Redlichia, ’ -Mid-cambrian. (viii) Phillipsia; Carboniferous to permian. (ix) Asaphus. Ordovician. In view of their wide geographical distribution and rather a limited range in geological time, trilobites ace regarded as excellent index-fossils. ’ Scanned with CamScanner