A recent study shows that marine oxygen levels were crucial to the evolution of early Paleozoic trilobite body size, ...

Fig. 4: Cambrian and Ordovician trilobite body size (A) and their correlation to the inferred oxygen levels (B) and temperature (C). (B) Ocean redox conditions and widespread anoxic intervals ...

Fig. 3: Phylogenetic based family-level body size evolution in Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites. (A) Ancestral state reconstruction of body size. (B) Evolutionary traitgram of trilobite body size.

However, in the Ordovician, the creatures were invertebrates, or organisms lacking a backbone, such as brachiopods, trilobites, and corals. These organisms were perfectly suited to survive in the warm ...

We study trilobites from four periods of the Palaeozoic: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian. Our research covers trilobite taxonomy, phylogeny, functional morphology, biogeography, and ...

There, he and his companion collected a remarkable diversity of new trilobite species that they found in rocks from the Ordovician period (between 485 and 444 million years ago) — the perfect ...