Failleana indeterminata


Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Trilobita
Order
Corynexochida
Suborder
Illaenina
Superfamily
Illaenoidea
Family
Styginidae
Binomial Name
Failleana indeterminata
Formation
Verulam Formation
Locale
Simcoe County, Ontario
Age
Late Ordovician
Notes

This is a relative of Paralejurus but lived much earlier, in the Ordovician rather than the Devonian. This was probably a burrowing trilobite.

This is a highly flattened specimen, as is common with trilobites preserved in shale. In life the trilobite had a highly domed carapace.


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Failleana indeterminata


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