Neseuretus tristani


Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Trilobita
Order
Phacopida
Suborder
Calymenina
Superfamily
Calymenoidea
Family
Calymenidae
Binomial Name
Neseuretus tristani
Formation
Llanvirn Series, LLandelian Stage, Volongo Formation
Locale
St. Pedro de Cova, Volongo, Portugal
Age
Middle Ordovician
Notes

This is a common European calymenid.

The rocks in the Volongo Formation are often very stretched out or compressed, and the trilobite fossils within them get stretched out or compressed too. This specimen is stretched out wider than it should be, and somewhat skewed.


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Neseuretus tristani


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