30408 - Top Rare 4.24 Inch Angelina sedgwickii Lower Ordovician Trilobite - Wales
30408 - Top Rare 4.24 Inch Angelina sedgwickii Lower Ordovician Trilobite - Wales 30408 - Top Rare 4.24 Inch Angelina sedgwickii Lower Ordovician Trilobite - Wales 30408 - Top Rare 4.24 Inch Angelina sedgwickii Lower Ordovician Trilobite - Wales 30408 - Top Rare 4.24 Inch Angelina sedgwickii Lower Ordovician Trilobite - Wales 30408 - Top Rare 4.24 Inch Angelina sedgwickii Lower Ordovician Trilobite - Wales

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30408 - Top Rare 4.24 Inch Angelina sedgwickii Lower Ordovician Trilobite - Wales

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Species
† Angelina sedgwickii (Salter, 1859)
Age
Lower Ordovician, Tremadoc Stage (~481 million years)
Location
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
Formation
Garth Hill Formation
Size
107.7 mm   •    in
Weight
173 g   •    oz
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Description
Angelina, Salter 1859 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Olenidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 20285

Parent taxon: Olenidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002

See also Harrington and Leanza 1957, Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968 and Sepkoski 2002

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

Subtaxa: Angelina hyeronimi, Angelina kayseri, Angelina spinosa

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Environments: offshore (4 collections), carbonate (2), marine (2), (1), deep subtidal shelf (1), transition zone/lower shoreface (1)

Age range: 488.3 to 478.6 Ma
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