Biology:Macrogrammus
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| Macrogrammus Temporal range: Early Arenig[1]
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| Genus: | Macrogrammus
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Macrogrammus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago. Its fossil name is Macrogrammus scylfense Whittard named after its British Collector WF Whittard in 1966.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ↑ "GB3D Type Fossils | High resolution photographs and digital models of British type fossils". http://www.3d-fossils.ac.uk/fossilType.cfm?typSampleId=1630.
Wikidata ☰ Q16962983 entry
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