Ordovician: Blind Cryptolithus

A small blind trilobite in the depths of an ordovician sea : Cryptolithus. , Procreate, 2023
A small blind trilobite in the depths of an ordovician sea : Cryptolithus. , Procreate, 2023

In this snapshot of the ancient Middle Ordovician ocean depths, a pale Cryptolithus trilobite crawling on the dark ocean floor.

Criptolithus lived at depth of at least 30 meters (approximately 98 feet) with muddy sediment.

Life from much deeper water is rarely preserved in fossils.