Explore: Fossil Arthropods

excretory systems of arthropods vary, depending as much on their environment as on the subphylum to which they belong. Arthropods use combinations of compound

In 2025, several new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, trilobites, and other arthropods (for insects, see 2025 in paleoentomology)

The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking. Many of the terms used for arthropod leg segments (called podomeres)

list of fossil arthropods described in 2012 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods of every

trails and the burrows made by clams and arthropods are all trace fossils. Perhaps the most spectacular trace fossils are the huge, three-toed footprints produced

αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical"), ζωόν living thing), is a fossil arthropod from the Silurian of Scotland. It was found at the Birk Knowes site

Skania is a Cambrian fossil arthropod. The type species, S. fragillis, is known from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. A second possible species

(UCMP collection)". The paleobiology database. Pierce, W.D. (1954). "Fossil arthropods of California no. 19. The Tenebrionidae-Scaurinae of the asphalt deposits"

Some pyritized fossils include Precambrian microfossils, marine arthropods, and plants. Pyritized ammonoid Pleuroceras solare fossil specimen Pyritized

entities") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were