Eoredlichia

The headshield or (cephalon) is about twice as wide as long (along the midline), spindle-shaped, bluntly pointed at the base of the genal spines, and straight where it connects with the thorax.

The genal spines grow from the cephalon at about mid-length outwards and backwards at an angle of about 30° at base, gradually bending till parallel to the midline at its tip approximately perpendicular to where thorax and pygidium meet.

The thorax has fifteen segments, with number 9 (counted from the front) carrying a spine approximately as long as the entire main body.

Like in all other adult trilobites for which the appendages are known, each consists of a common basis (hip or coxa), a leg (or endopod) and a gill (or exopod), in Eoredlichia 21 pair in all.

To the back, each exopod carries about forty thin long filaments, that probably acted as gills, and short setae along the rounded distal lobe.

Restoration of Eoredlichia intermedia