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Agnostida
trilobite order
Also known as: agnostid
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Cambrian Period fossil
- In Cambrian Period: Correlation of Cambrian strata
…species of the trilobite order Agnostida have intercontinental distributions in open-marine strata. These trilobites are small, rarely exceeding a few millimetres in length, and they have only two thoracic segments. Specialized appendages, which were probably useful for swimming but unsuitable for walking on the seafloor, suggest that they were pelagic…
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