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Look Into The Eye Of The Trilobite


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Last week Koopyetz and I traded some fossils. One of the many he sent me was a trilobite. Actually there were three but that is besides the point. I was looking over them with the loupe and was looking closely at this one when I found it's eyes. To say that it startled me is a gross understatement. I nearly dropped the thing. The trilobites in my collection before these didn't have any eyes on them. So this came as a surprise to me. It looks so alien. The picture I took doesn't even do it justice.

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Glad I didn't drop it.

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Coming 'eye-to-eye' with an ancient creature can be a transformative experience. Eyes mean something to us, they are relevant to what we are. And, a trilobite's compound eye is pretty freakin' strange!

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Fascinating,eh? And to think that Trilobites are the ancestor of our modern day arthropods, which include insects, crabs and spiders, most of which also have compound eyes. I remember flipping out the first time I discovered that most spiders have 8 eyes.

 

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I still enjoy seeing trilobite eyes - it never gets old.

Can we get a shot of the rest of the trilobite?

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Sometime it the 70's Jour. of Paleo published a paper regarding x-ray of compound trilobite eyes of the Phacops of the Devonian of Ohio. The detail was amazing.

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Here you go Tim.

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Thanks for the pic, Ryan - very cool trilo.

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