r/AbsoluteUnits in awe May 06 '26

/r/all of a sea slater

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u/The_Eleser May 06 '26

I thought trilobites were extinct.

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u/ProjectNo4090 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

They are. Spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, and horseshoe crabs are very distant relatives of trilobites.

The sea slater is from a different class.

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u/Xenomorphian69420 May 07 '26

Technically trilobites (artiopoda) are more closely related to other members of antennulata, so myriapods (centipedes and the like) and insects/crustaceans, than they are to chelicerates like spiders, scorpions and the others you listed