Redlichia Rex Trilobite

Trilobites are a group of extinct marine arthropods that resemble modern,day
horseshoe crabs and are related to modern crustaceans and insects. Just very
recently paleontologists have unearthed fossils of a giant trilobite species
that lived in ancient oceans of what is now Australia approx. 540 million
years ago. This discovery of the Redlichia rex trilobite gave CollectA the
idea to create the corresponding model figurine. The creature disappeared in
the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period, about 252 million
years ago.