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The Cambrian Explosion of Animal Life
Trilobites
These fossils (a–d) belong to trilobites, extinct arthropods that appeared in the early Cambrian period 525 million years ago and disappeared from the fossil record during a mass extinction at the end of the Permian period about 250 million years ago.
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"OpenStax College, Biology. November 14, 2013."
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