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Pagetia-usnm-146310

Pagetia is a genus of trilobites known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 1022 specimens of Pagetia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 1.94% of the community. Its remains are sometimes found in the otherwise-empty tubes of the polychaete worm Selkirkia. Its major characteristics are a small size of less than one centimeter, eyes, two thoracic segments, an annulated pygidium, and a terminal axial spine.

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