Ogygopsis typicalis

 

         

 

Name: Ogygopsis typicalis
(Resser 1939b)

Trilobites Order Corynexochida, Suborder Corynexochina, Superfamily Corynexochoidea, Family Dorypygidae
Locality: left: Rachel (near area 51), Lincoln County, Nevada; middle & right: Miner's Hollow, Wellsville Mts. Box Elder Co. Utah
Stratigraphy: left: unnamed limestone unit in the Pioche Shale; middle: Langston Fm, Spence Shale member, Middle Cambrian; right: lower Spence, Langston Formation
Remarks: left Photo: G. Ast collection; middle & right Photo: Nick Skabelund

The slab at the left is from an unnnamed limestone unit just above the Pioche Shale (upper Middle Cambrian), Lincoln Co., near Area 51. The largest Ogygopsis on the slab is 3 inches!. The other trilobite on the slab at the right is Bathyuriscus wasatchensis.

 

 

Name: Ogygopsis typicalis
(Resser 1939b)
Trilobites Order Corynexochida, Suborder Corynexochina, Superfamily Corynexochoidea, Family Dorypygidae
Locality: Rachel (near area 51), Lincoln County, Nevada
Stratigraphy: unnamed limestone unit in the Pioche Shale
Remarks: From the Richie Kurkewicz Pangaea Collection

Ventral view:  6 cm.

 


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