Pterocephalia norfordi Canadian Trilobite


Name: Pterocephalia norfordi Chatterton & Ludvigsen, 1998

Class Trilobita; Trilobite Order Asaphida; Family Pterocephaliidae

Geological Time: Upper Cambrian, Steptoean

Size: 28 mm

Fossil Site: McKay Group, Tanglefoot Area, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

(Canada Trilobites)


This trilobite is an uncommonspecies coming from the McKay Group. Like many trilobites from the Tanglefoot area, this Pterocephalia was preserved in a calcite nodule.

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Pterocephalia norfordi

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