image credit: The Virtual Fossil Museum (Gallery) and Fossilmalleyy what’s up ya’ll I’m back t
image credit: The Virtual Fossil Museum (Gallery) and Fossilmalleyy what’s up ya’ll I’m back to rate the fossil Isotelus, a genus of trilobites that lived during the late Ordovician period but died out w the rest of its homies in the Permian-Triassic extinction :((. Something unique about this beb is that they can grow to be pretty mASSive when compared to other genuses of trilobites. Take this: in 1999, a specimen of the lovely Isotelus rex was found in the Manitoba province of Canada. It clocked in at 720 mm/28in in length (bruh that’s !! more than 2 ft long !!), and 400mm/16in in max width, across the cephalon (cephalon = basically the head). This means that it holds the record for the largest complete trilobite ever found! Just a note: neither of the photos above is I. rex; the left is actually I. gigas, and the one on the right is I. maximus.Fun Fact: Isotelus is actually the official state fossil of Ohio!!now all i need is to rate another trilobite (mayb cryptolithus or eldredgeops?? do yall have any suggestions) and the Big Trilobite Triadᵀᴹ will finally be completesmall-custard assessment: I give Isotelus a noice 8.9/10. -- source link
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