Transition
This Trilobite Ordovician fossil is one of the earlier Trilobites. It lived about 450 million years ago. It is quite large at 45 mm wide, 27mm deep and 70 mm long.
Trilobites are a group of long extinct marine arachnomorph arthropods. Trilobites 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, 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
