Ogygiocarella debuchi


Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Trilobita
Order
Asaphida
Suborder
Asaphina
Superfamily
Asaphoidea
Family
Asaphidae
Binomial Name
Ogygiocarella debuchi
Formation
Llanffawr Mudstone Group
Locale
Builth Inlier, Wales
Age
Middle Ordovician (Llandelian Stage)
Notes
This bug's main claim to fame is that it is the first species of trilobite to be given a scientific description, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. (It was suggested that it was a flat fish).

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Ogygiocarella debuchi


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