Ordovician fauna of Putilovo village

Putilovo village
Stratigraphic range: Middle Ordovician
Type quarry
Location
Region Europe
Country Russia

In a quarry near what is now Putilovo village, Russia (near Saint Petersburg), are large deposits of Ordovician clay. In this clay the most abundant genus is Asaphus, a trilobite.

List of species

Trilobites

Asaphus expansus
Hoplolichoides
Pseudoasaphus
Genus Species
Asaphus A. kowalevski, A. expansus, A. latus
Prochasmops P. praecurrens
Dysplanus D. acutigenia
Hoplolichoides H. conicotuberculatus
Cybele C. panderi
Illaenus I. tauricornis
Cheirurus C. sp.
Pseudoasaphus P. praecurrens
Ptychopyge P. lesnikova

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