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  • proper noun A taxonomic class within the subphylum Trilobitomorpha — the trilobites.

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  • Trilobita and Eurypterida, among the Crustacea; making altogether five for the great sub-kingdom of Annulosa.

    Essays 2007

  • Edrioasterida, among the Echinoderms; and two, the Trilobita and

    Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Edrioasterida, among the Echinoderms; and two, the Trilobita and

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Slowly inching his segmented exoskeleton across the sea floor, a local marine arthropod, class Trilobita, reported that Earth's natural evolution was "progressing quite nicely."

    The Onion 2009

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