Trilobites: Common Trilobites of North America

An illustrated guide to the common fossil trilobites of North America, with detailed drawings and descriptive text including information about lifestyles, vision, growth, locomotion, feeding, growth stages, evolution and extinction, and classification. 41 representative species are presented, with illustrations and information about geologic and geographic range as well as comments about size and possible habits.

Jasper Burns is the author of Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States (Johns Hopkins), Fossil Dreams (Pietas), and Exploring Fossils (Virginia Museum of Natural History) and the illustrator of Discovering Fossils (Stackpole Books) by Donald S. Miller and Frank A. Garcia. His illustrated children's book entitled Fossil Beach will be released in 2012.