An Introduction to Palaeontology

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An Introduction to Palaeontology
Arthur Morley Davies
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into the mud, using the tail-spine as its support. The highly-developed eyes, however, show that it did not live buried in the mud : the eyes could have been no use in the search for food ; they must have served to warn it of the approach of enemies. Their position, on the highest part of the head, is clear evidence that this was a bottom-living or benthic animal : in trilobites of Hectic 200 PAL/EON TOLOGY (swimming) habit, the eyes are
...close to the margin of the head, so that they could look outwards as well as upwards, and in these there is never a tail-spine. We owe these observations to Prof. Dollo of Brussels. Nothing is known of the limbs of Dalmanites.
3. Triarthrus becki (Fig. 57) is a small trilobite of which very beautifully preserved specimens have been found in the Ordovician Utica Shale of Rome, New York State. In form this is much less tapering than the pre- vious forms, and ends more bluntly behind. The semi- circular head-shield has a much less distinct marginal rim, the glabella is of almost uniform width, with lateral furrows which are but very slightly inflected from the transverse direction.


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