Devonian Phacopid Trilobites Had Unique Hyper-Compound Eyes
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Oct 01 2021 at 3:41 PM GMT
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- Trilobites are extinct arthropods that dominated the faunas of the Paleozoic Era.
- Since their appearance 523 million years ago, they were equipped with elaborate compound eyes.
- While most of them possessed apposition compound eyes, comparable to the compound eyes of many crustaceans and insects living today, trilobites of the suborder Phacopina that lived 390 million.
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- Published Oct 1, 2021 3:41 PM GMT