Trilobites is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Trilobites meaning
plural of trilobite
Using Trilobites
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of trilobite
- In the example corpus, trilobites often appears in combinations such as: trilobites were.
Context around Trilobites
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trilobites
- In this selection, "trilobites" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, moroccan, tiny, song, developed and snails stand out and add context to how "trilobites" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abundant and trilobites were still and basis like trilobites. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trilobites" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trilobites
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A promotional video was filmed for the song "Trilobites". (9 words)
Trilobites and brachiopods in particular were rich and diverse. (9 words)
The most common forms of life, however, were trilobites, snails and shellfish. (12 words)
Owing to the fact the Moroccan trilobites were encased in hot ash in sea water, their bodies fossilized very quickly as the ash transformed to rock—meeting a similar end to the inhabitants of Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (41 words)
Trilobites were the principal life-form of the sea bed, and fossil tracks can be seen in the Potsdam sandstone floor of the Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center. citation About 10 million years ago the region began to be uplifted. (40 words)
The researchers from France, Switzerland and Morocco analyzed the fossils and concluded that the tiny trilobites, which look similar to modern horseshoe crabs, probably intentionally formed a queue as they swarmed along the prehistoric sea floor. (36 words)
Example sentences (12)
Many trilobites developed bizarre spines and nodules to defend against predators such as primitive eurypterids and nautiloids while other trilobites such as Aeglina prisca evolved to become swimming forms.
Owing to the fact the Moroccan trilobites were encased in hot ash in sea water, their bodies fossilized very quickly as the ash transformed to rock—meeting a similar end to the inhabitants of Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
The researchers from France, Switzerland and Morocco analyzed the fossils and concluded that the tiny trilobites, which look similar to modern horseshoe crabs, probably intentionally formed a queue as they swarmed along the prehistoric sea floor.
A fossil from Morocco of a Diademaproetus, one of the trilobites that were plentiful in the world’s oceans but went extinct at the end of the Permian.
A promotional video was filmed for the song "Trilobites".
Lily-like crinoids (animals, their resemblance to flowers notwithstanding) were abundant, and trilobites were still fairly common.
Some trilobites even developed shovel-like snouts for ploughing through muddy sea bottoms.
Stromatolites of the Pika Formation (Middle Cambrian) near Helen Lake, Banff National Park, Canada Trilobites were very common during this time Anomalocaris was an early marine predator, among the various arthropods of the time.
The 17 to 25 pairs of legs have two branches on a common basis, like trilobites.
The most common forms of life, however, were trilobites, snails and shellfish.
Trilobites and brachiopods in particular were rich and diverse.
Trilobites were the principal life-form of the sea bed, and fossil tracks can be seen in the Potsdam sandstone floor of the Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center. citation About 10 million years ago the region began to be uplifted.
Common combinations with trilobites
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: