Saturday, October 16, 2010

Phacops rana of Ohio

Phacops rana (Green, 1832) trilobite fossil found in Ohio.  Animal existed during the Devonian Period.  Fossil on display at Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (August 2010).

Genus named by Emmrich in 1839. The fossil genus has been renamed to Eldredgeops (Struve, 1990).