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Trilobite Id please


Mschaecer81

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Found in grant county SW Wisconsin.  Ordovician period... not sure what formation is. Need help ID

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I found a similar one in the Mifflin Member of the Platteville Group (in Illinois) that I just posted, it was ID’d as Walencrinuroides rarus.

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Moss, D.K., Westrop, S.R. 2014

Systematics of some Late Ordovician Encrinurine Trilobites from Laurentian North America.
Journal of Paleontology, 88(6):1095-1119  PDF LINK

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Likely a moulted pygidium, but only some prep will provide certainty!

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