Paradosis trilobite, a fossil specimen of the Bournemouth Society for Natural Sciences
The fossil specimen of the Paladocxis genus trilobite from the Bournemouth Natural Science Society. Trilobites are extinct arthropods, hard shelled organisms with segmented bodies and articulated legs. They lived from 521 million years ago in the early Cambrian to 252 million years ago in the Permian, when they became extinct during the Permian Triassic mass extinction. Marine organisms are usually small, but species of the Paradosis genus can grow up to 45 centimeters in length.
