Product Description
Our Tricrepicephalus measures 2 1/2 inches long (including feelers) and is made of flexible plastic. Our Tricrepicephalus is detailed and green and light brown in color, but its actual hue is unknown since scientists only have information from fossil records of the Cambrian Period. Check out our Cambrian Period and other extinct prehistoric animal replicas, toys, and gifts.
Tricrepicephalus is an extinct genus of ptychopariid trilobites of the family Tricrepicephalidae with species of average size. Its species lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period. Tricrepicephalus has an inverted egg-shaped exoskeleton, with three characteristic pits in the fold that parallels the margin of the headshield just in front of the central raised area. The articulating middle part of the body has 12 segments and the tailshield carries two long, tubular, curved pygidial spines that are reminiscent of earwig's pincers that rise backwards from the plain of the body at approximately 30°.
