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15Fossil sites

Kildare Limestone

Kildare Limestone in Ireland: 15 fossil sites. Typical age: 449–445 million years (Ordovician).

15Fossil sites
77Finds
449–445 million yearsTypical age
OrdovicianMain period

Where its fossils were found

Kildare Limestone
Ordovician

By geological period

Ordovician15

What was found

Trilobites · 77Pseudosphaerexochus, Sphaerexochus, Holotrachelus, Hadromeros, Cyphoniscus, Tiresias, Prionocheilus, Atractopyge, Phorocephala, Hibbertia, Sphaerocoryphe, Tretaspis, Ceraurinella, Oedicybele, Glaphurella, Scotoharpes

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Other formations of the same period

Ordovician