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This specimen is an Early Trilobite 3mm in Cambrian siltstone 50mm 15.2g. The Trilobite fossil is the preserved remains of a creature that lived in the ocean at the beginning of the Cambrian period. The emergence of these creatures defines the beginning of that geological era. This is when the appearance of life on Earth first became recognisable. This was 538 million years ago. It could be older. As an early Trilobite it is tiny, at only 3mm long.
Trilobites were a group of marine arachnomorph arthropods that are now long extinct. They were hard-shelled, segmented creatures. They lived from 570 million to 250 million years ago. Their first appearance in the fossil record defines the beginning of the Early Cambrian period.
The trilobites were among the most successful of all early animals. Trilobites reproduced sexually. They moulted their hard shell when their body grew too large and underwent a series of life stages. They lived in a variety of marine environments during their existence and flourished in the world’s oceans throughout the lower Palaeozoic era. There was then a lengthy decline to extinction in the Devonian, when nearly all the Trilobite orders died out. The last Trilobites disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian, about 250 million years ago.
Chakra: Root Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra
Colour: grey, black, red
Emotional: fortitude, patience
Mental/intellectual: creativity, leadership, management, perseverance, strength
Spiritual: abundance, ancient knowledge, awakening, growth, past lives, prosperity, protection, truth
Astrology: Capricorn, Virgo, Earth
Number: 8
Rarity: rare
Mineral Class: fossils
