They had a convex, lobed structure in the cephalon called a glabella and belonged to the order asaphida.
They had a convex, lobed structure in the cephalon called a glabella and belonged to the order asaphida. They often broke down their food with gnathobases, toothlike structures on the legs, since they lacked the complex mouth apparatuses of relatives like the horseshoe crab. For 10 points, name these arthropods that burrowed into sediment and molted often, leaving as many as twenty shells in their lifetime, and are, therefore, are among the most common fossils?
They had a convex, lobed structure in the cephalon called a glabella and belonged to the order asaphida.
{trilobite}s [or {trilobita}]