Dicellocephalus Minnesotenis a Trilobite
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Trilobites ("three-lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita.The earliest trilobites had complex, compound eyes with lenses made of calcite, a unique characteristic of all trilobite eyes. The trilobite eyes were typically compound, with each lens being an elongated prism. The number of lenses in such an eye varied: some trilobites had only one, while some had thousands of lenses in a single eye. In these compound eyes, the lenses were typically arranged hexagonall (b).
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Winchell, Alexander Sketches of Creation (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1870)
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