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  Trilobite Butt-Blotch

Trilobite Butt-Blotch

Trace Maker
  Trilobite
Trace Name
  Rusophycus sp.
RUS-O-PHI-KUS
Age
   Silurian Period
(About 415 million years old)
Where
   Arisaig, Nova Scotia
Cast or Mold
   Cast
Collector
   Dr. Ron Pickerill, Unviersity of New Brunswick, Fredericton
     
  Rusophycus This is a trace made by a trilobite while it took a rest. Trilobites are extinct and we only know about them from their fossilized remains and traces. Trilobites looked something like an underwater sow bug and are often called "the butterflies of the sea."

This trace is one of the largest trilobite resting traces ever found in Atlantic Canada. The trilobite would have settled itself into the soft muddy ocean bottom for a "time out." This is a large trace, so you imagine how large the trilobite must have been.
     
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