Warren said:
ALL trilobites were killed off in the Cambrian extinction, about 500 MY ago.
This is not true. As Leonard said, the trilobites were wiped out by the end-Permian mass extinction. An excellent account of the evolutionary history of trilobites can be found in Richard Fortey's book _Trilobite!_, which I reviewed a few years ago:
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