Chapter II
These have the three chief parts of the body developed.
3. _The facial ridge._ Cambrian, adult with glabella and facial ridges, short or long, emanating from the top of the glabella, thorax and pygidium. Several American Conocoryphæ. Corresponding larval stage, Sao, stage 3, BARR. pl. 7 figs 4 d-9.
4. _Suture._ A suture dividing the fixed cheeks in two pair viz. two fixed cheeks and two free cheeks. Fully developed facial ridge. Oldest known adult forms are Ellipsocephalus, Arionellus, already in the Lowest Cambrian, the Olenellus beds, what presupposes a long, antecedent lineage far back in the precambrian times. Corresponding larval stage in Sao, BARR. pl. 7 figs 10-13. The plurality of Cambrian trilobites belong here. An intermediate stage leading to the next is seen in such forms in which the ridge posteriorly is widened into the »eye lobe», which rests in the scallop of the free cheek. So it is in Liostracus and many others besides. Solenopleura possibly oculate.
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Researches on the Visual Organs of the TrilobitesChapter II
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