''Malchi magnificus'' is a proetid trilobite belonging to the family

Phillipsiidae Phillipsiidae is a family of proetid trilobites, the various genera of which comprise some of the last of the trilobites, with a range that extended from the Kinderhookian epoch of the Lower Mississippian, to the end of Changhsingian age at Pe ...

. The exquisitely preserved fossils are found in Lower

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

-aged marine strata of what is now Malchi Creek, Queensland,

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* Proetida fact shee

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