Object Details
- Discipline
- Paleobiology
- Region
- US Northeast (NY, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH, ME)
- Description
- This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
- Geologic Age
- Paleozoic - Devonian - Middle
- This specimen is a Trilobite. Trilobites are the earliest known arthropod, appearing in the fossil record 521 million years ago. These marine creatures roamed the oceans for 270 million years in abundance and are a common find for fossil hunters. Trilobites disappeared 252 million years ago, during the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, the largest mass extinction that ended approximately 57% of all families and 83% of genera. This specimen is a Phacops rana rana, a trilobite from the middle Denovian period (393.3 to 382.7 million years ago).
- Number of objects in this record
- 6
- Record Last Modified
- 19 Oct 2023
- Stratigraphy
- Windam Shale
- USNM Number
- EO50651
- Object Type
- Education and Outreach collections
- Collecting Locality
- North America, United States, New York, Erie County
- Scientific Name
- Phacops rana rana
- See more items in
- Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
- Taxonomy
- Animalia, Arthropoda, Mandibulata, Trilobita, Phacopida, Phacopidae
- Topic
- Education & Outreach
- Record ID
- nmnheducation_10020194
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/33ca69355-8ab4-45a2-9096-bc70683d0f38
