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Description: | Specimen of a fossil trilobite, Olenus cataractes, collected from the Merioneth Series, Lingula Flags, Upper Maentwrog Beds of Late Cambrian age from (?), Gwynned (Wales). Collected by W.D. Dinning.
Trilobites are amongst the commonest fossils to be found in rocks of Cambrian age. They have been used by geologists to identify and compare different Cambrian rock outcrops in the UK and worldwide. Olenus would probably have crawled on the seabed scavenging on decaying animal matter.
The specimen was found in Wales.
It is from the Cambrian period (545 - 495 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | W.D. Dinning Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Trilobita Arthropoda | Temporal: | Cambrian period (545 - 495 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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