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T R I L O B I T E! T R I L O B I T E! Eyewitness to Evolution BY Richard Fortey ALFRED A. KNOPF New York 2000 THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright © 2000 by Richard Fortey All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. www.aaknopf.com Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, London. Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fortey, Richard A. Trilobite!: eyewitness to evolution / by Richard Fortey. — 1st American ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-375-40625-5 1. Trilobites. I. Title. QE821.F67 2000 565'.39—dc2i 00-034908 Manufactured in the United States of America First American Edition For my mother Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Plates xi Preface xiii I Discovery 3 II Shells 27 III Legs 52 IV Crystal Eyes 84 V Exploding Trilobites 120 VI Museum 146 VII A Matter of Life and Death 159 VIII Possible Worlds 190 IX Time 218 X Eyes to See 255 Acknowledgements 267 Suggestions for Further Reading 269 Index 271 vii Illustrations Drawing of the giant trilobite Paradoxides by Philip Lake. 23 The anatomy of a trilobite. 31 Spines recovered from trilobites from the Ordovician of Virginia by Professor Whittington. 40 "Flatfish" figured in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by Dr. Lhwyd (1679). 48 Fantasy trilobite from J. S. Shroeter (1774). 54 Charles Doolittle Walcott. 59 Walcott's first attempt to show the limbs of the trilobite Ceraurus. 62 Modern reconstruction of the branched limb of Triarthrus. 62 Professor Beecher's reconstruction of Triarthrus from the underside, showing branched limbs and antennae. 67 Legs of Phacops. 72 The workings of a trilobite's eye. 97 Trilobite eyes. 105 Clarkson and Levi-Setti's illustration of the workings of the highly refractive bowl inside the lens of Phacops. 109 Reconstruction of the giant-eyed Opipeuter. 112 Free-swimming Parabarrandia. 116 Olenellus. 127 Anomalocaris as reproduced in Stephen J. Gould's Wonderful Life. 139 Place of trilobites in the emergence of animals in the early Cambrian era. 142 ix
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