If you were transported back in time to the Cambrian Period, the mobile marine organisms that would be most unique to that period would be ____.

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Trilobites are one of the most distinctive and diverse group of organisms that flourished during the Cambrian Period, which marks the first appearance of complex organisms in the fossil record. They were mobile and had a hard exoskeleton, three-lobed body, and numerous appendages, making them ideally adapted for life in the ocean. The other organisms listed were also present during the Cambrian Period, but trilobites were the most unique and diverse.

If You Were Transported Back in Time to the Cambrian