They can be so small that they need to be viewed with a microscope.
Trilobite, meaning "three lobes", occupied different levels of the food web including predator, scavenger, and prey. They are typically found by splitting sheets of shale and hard limestone deposits. Trilobites vary widely in size and shape. Trilobites molted their exoskeleton much like lobsters of today and are one of the first animals known to have the sense of vision.