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Brachiopods and Trilobites

Brachiopods and Trilobites. By: Madison Herndon. What are Brachipods ?. Brachipods are marine animals which are often mistaken and compared to clams. They are actually quite different though.

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Brachiopods and Trilobites

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  1. Brachiopods and Trilobites By: Madison Herndon

  2. What are Brachipods? Brachipods are marine animals which are often mistaken and compared to clams. They are actually quite different though. • Very cold waters, often in polar regions or great depths in the ocean on rocky, sandy, or muddy floors • Flourished in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods- 540 million years ago • Suspension eaters- extract food (plankton, particles or dead organic mattrer, etc.) out of water and pump it in and out of their shells • Predators include echinoderms, crustaceans, gastropods, cephalopods and fish • Body is a shell that has two valves made out of muscle

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  4. What areTrilobites? Trilobites are marine animals, which were among the Earth’s early anthropoids. They are hard shelled creatures with multiple body segments and jointed legs. • Lives anywhere in the ocean in any climate • Ate worms • Predators include nautiloids, sea scropions, crustaceans, anomacocabids • Existed in the Cambrian and Ordovician times- 540 millions years ago • Paleozoic- age of Trilobites

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  6. Credits • http://commonfossilsofoklahoma.snomnh.ou.edu/brachiopods • http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/brachiopoda/brachiopoda.html • http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/PGMWeb/Glossary/Brachiopods.htm • http://www.trilobites.info/trilobite.htm • http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1279 • http://www.google.com/imgres?q=trilobites&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1225&bih=597&tbm=isch&tbnid=sjCE1Zv2WJ30jM:&imgrefurl=http://www.trilobites.info/trilobite.htm&docid=k5i7hX8qByFRFM&imgurl=http://www.trilobites.info/cepthopyg.gif&w=274&h=325&ei=rsh-UPGTC4ja8ASwhICYDA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=413&sig=100362564158347142092&page=1&tbnh=145&tbnw=122&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:71&tx=109&ty=65 • http://www.google.com/imgres?q=brachiopod&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1225&bih=597&tbm=isch&tbnid=0gq7bNKRnSAn1M:&imgrefurl=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/brachiopoda/brachiopoda.html&docid=CWYoUmXWk9LWMM&imgurl=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/brachiopoda/spirex.jpg&w=230&h=165&ei=D8l-UJuWO4yo8QSJk4DAAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=357&vpy=190&dur=45&hovh=132&hovw=184&tx=107&ty=53&sig=100362564158347142092&page=1&tbnh=132&tbnw=180&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:71

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