Tuesday, April 13, 2010

OLENOIDES.PRECAMBRIAN /9

Olenoides is a trilobite with a hard shell, like a crab. A hunter and a scavenger, the Olenoides' thin limbs suggests that this was not a swimmer. The fossilized tracks this trilobite left in bottom sediment shows that it crawled along the bottom and dug in pursuit of its prey.

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