Model of the trilobite, Dicranurus.
Image: Benjamin Healley
Source: Museum Victoria
Fossil of the trilobite, Dicranurus.
Image: Jon Augier
Source: Museum Victoria
Dicranurus was a trilobite that lived in a shallow sea located near Morocco during the Devonian. Dicranurus was covered in pairs of ornate and formidable curved spines, which may have been used as a defence against an ever-increasing number of predators.