title: Redlichia chinensis
text: # Redlichia chinensis
  
  Redlichia chinensis is an extinct species of trilobite that existed from 526 million years ago to 513 million years ago in the early Cambrian period (4th stage).
  
  ## Ecology
  
  The species is a nektobenthic deposit feeder.
  
  ## History
  
  R. chinensis was discovered by Chang in 1966 in the Balang formation, China. 19 fossils have been discovered.
  
  ## Morphology
  
  R. chinensis has a wide cephalon with a border and the glaella tapers forwards. The hypostoma has been pushed through from the underside and the genal spines are not at the occipital edge. The thorax narrows to a small pygidium and the pleurae terminate in short spines. R. chinensis is 7.5 centimeters long.
  
  