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Object Type:
Education and Outreach collections
Collecting Locality:
North America, United States, New York, Erie County
Description:
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.
Geologic Age:
Paleozoic - Devonian - Middle
Notes:
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).