What is a trilobite? Albert Kollar, Collection Manager of Invertebrate Paleontology, shares his knowledge of this extinct animal including how to pronounce “trilobite,” the three parts of the trilobite body, and which trilobite species is the state fossil of Pennsylvania.
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