Wow, does this look like those Trilobite fossils...

[rs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite

 

[tschai]

Yes-it looks like a trilobite, but as they are extinct (or ARE THEY?!-you sly devil-did you find a time machine and are not SHARING?) What, then, IS IT? My guess (what do I win if I am right?) A larval stage horse shoe crab...

Well? Is that it? Huh? Don't keep us in suspense, please! What is this thing?

 

[GRiM]

Seems alot of "extinct" animals are making a comeback, a few month ago they found a "extinct" shark alive and well.

 

[Kesdjan]

Well it doesn't seem to have an 'axial lobe', which seems to be the defining feature of trilobytes. Looks more like the larva form of one of these :).

 

[mudrabbit]

Looks like some kind of crab to me.. maybe a deep water type, something where there is no light. I noticed the little "lights" along the appendages.

Peg

Edited;
Just a thought. When I lived in the VI there were shells everywhere on the beaches, that when assembled (if one could find enough of them) resembled a trilobite type shellfish. The shells are very hard, I still have some that I collected years ago. The animal is shaped somewhat like the one in the picture. The shells I have are sections, one lays over the other, and resemble boomerangs... except the flat is on the other angle.