30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK
30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK 30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK 30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK 30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK 30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK 30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK 30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK 30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK

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30498 - Rare 0.72 Inch Tretaspis sortita Ordovician Trilobite - UK

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Species
† Tretaspis sortita (Reed, 1935)
Age
Ordovician, Ashgill Series (~470 Million Years)
Location
Girvan, Ayrshire, UK
Formation
Girvan Ordovician Outcrops
Size
18.2 mm   •    in
Weight
31 g   •    oz
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Description
Tretaspis sortita, Reed 1935 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Trinucleidae
 
PaleoDB taxon number: 310744

Belongs to Tretaspis according to Reed 1935

Sister taxa: Tretaspis anderssoni, Tretaspis askerensis, Tretaspis ceriodes, Tretaspis hadelandica, Tretaspis hisingeri, Tretaspis kiaeri, Tretaspis latilimbus, Tretaspis moeldenensis, Tretaspis sagenosus, Tretaspis seticornis

Subtaxa: Tretaspis sortita broeggeri

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Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Environments: marine (3 collections), carbonate (1)

Age range: 449.5 to 445.6 Ma

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Norway (7 collections)
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