Modocia laevinucha


Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Trilobita
Order
Aulacopleurida
Family
Marjumiidae
Binomial Name
Modocia laevinucha
Formation
Marjum Formation
Locale
House Range, Millard County, Utah
Age
Middle Cambrian
Notes
This is a rarer and plainer species than Modocia typicalis, lacking the genal and pleural spines in the more common trilobite. The red coloring in the center of the head and the central lobe of the thorax is due to guts squashed under the shell.

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Modocia laevinucha


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