A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
- Written by James D. Holmes, Palaeontology PhD student, University of Adelaide
A fossil of the giant new trilobite species _Redlichia rex_.
James Holmes, Author provided
At up to 30cm long and armed with spines for crushing and shredding food, we’ve identified a previously unknown creature that would have been a giant among its neighbours in the waters off modern-day South Australia.
The newly described fossil of a...
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