Tag Archive for 'Ampyx'

An artistic reconstruction of the Cabrières Biota: in the foreground, a row of Ampyx (trilobites) and various shelly organisms, including brachiopods and a hyolith (bottom left corner); behind the trilobites, a lobopodian, a chelicerate, cnidarians (blue), sponges (green), thin branching algae (red and green) and hemichordate tubes (purple), along with some mollusks; bivalved arthropods inhabit the water column along with graptolites. Image credit: Christian McCall, Prehistorica Art.

Unique Fossil Site Discovered in France Provides Insights into Ordovician Polar Ecosystems

Feb 9, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a new paper in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, paleontologists described the diversity of the Cabrières Biota, a new Early Ordovician site...

A linear cluster of Ampyx priscus trilobites from the Fezouata Shale of Morocco. Image credit: Jean Vannier, Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement / CNRS / ENS de Lyon / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

Paleontologists Find Fossilized Remains of Trilobite Queues

Oct 29, 2019 by News Staff

In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of Lyon’s Dr. Jean Vannier and colleagues described several fossilized clusters of...