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Definition of Trilobites
1. trilobite [n] - See also: trilobite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trilobites
Literary usage of Trilobites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"Origin of the trilobites.—A study of the appendages of Trilo- bites leads Dr.
Walcott to views confirmatory of those of Bernard in regard to the origin of ..."
2. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"Professor Walch of Jena, Germany, in 1771, gave them the generic name trilobites,
a term that has since been raised to the rank of a subclass Trilobita of ..."
3. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1914)
"trilobites have a more or less distinctly three-lobed body, ... As compared with
those of later times, the Cambrian trilobites are marked by the (usually) ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The initial decline of the trilobites.—No new families of trilobites, ...
Singularly erratic developments of form attended the decline of the trilobites, ..."
5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"It is now generally known that the youngest stages of trilobites found as fossils
are minute ovate or discoid bodies, not more than one millimetre in length ..."
6. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"trilobites. The great extent to which trilobites are distributed over the surface
... No trilobites have yet been found in any strata more recent than the ..."
7. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"... trilobites— Middle Silurian or Llandovery Beds—Lower Silurian rocks—Caradoc
... strata and Huronian rocks—Minnesota trilobites—Rocks older than the Cim- ..."
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