Eoredlichia intermedia

Description

Yunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old. The trilobite *Eoredlichia* can be divided into a **head shield**, **thorax** and **tail shield**. It had 21 pairs of jointed **legs** underneath the body, each with a feather-like **gill** for breathing. It fed by scavenging decaying organisms, and used its paired legs to walk over the sea floor. The pair of long **antennae** at the front of the head was used for sensing its surroundings and finding food. Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com