30381 - Top Rare 0.76 Inch Olenus truncatus Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Wales
30381 - Top Rare 0.76 Inch Olenus truncatus Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Wales 30381 - Top Rare 0.76 Inch Olenus truncatus Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Wales 30381 - Top Rare 0.76 Inch Olenus truncatus Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Wales

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30381 - Top Rare 0.76 Inch Olenus truncatus Upper Cambrian Trilobite - Wales

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Species
Olenus truncatus (Brünnich, 1781)
Age
Upper Cambrian,(~497 Million Years)
Location
North of Dolgellau, North Wales
Formation
Lower Merioneth Series
Size
19.2 mm   •    in
Weight
16 g   •    oz
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Description
Olenus, Dalman 1827 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Olenidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 20765

Alternative spelling: Olenellus (Olenus)

Synonym: Simulolenus Palmer 1965 (taxon 20959)

Parent taxon: Olenidae according to J.-S. Bao and J.B. Jago 2000

See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Walcott 1910

Sister taxa: Acerocare, Acerocarina, Aciculolenus, Angelina, Apoplanias, Balnibarbiinae, Beltella, Boeckaspis, Chekiangaspis, Ctenopyge, Euonchonotina, Hancrania, Highgatella, Huangshiaspis, Hypermecaspidinae, Hypermecaspis, Inkouia, Jujuyaspis, Leiobienvillia, Leptobenthos, Leptoplastides, Leptoplastinae, Neolenus, Oleninae, Parabolina, Parabolinella, Parabolinina, Parabolinites, Paraplicatolina, Peltocare, Peltura, Pelturina, Pelturinae, Plicatolininae, Prohedinella, Protopeltura, Rhodonaspis, Saltaspis, Sphaerophthalmella, Westergaardia, Westergaardites, Wujiajiania

Subtaxa: Olenus austriacus, Olenus sinensis, Simulolenus granulatus, Simulolenus quadrisulcatus

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Environments: marine (4 collections), slope (4), basinal (siliciclastic) (1), (1), offshore shelf (1)

Age range: 498.5 to 488.3 Ma

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