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13Fossil sites

Fjäcka Shale

Fjäcka Shale in Sweden: 13 fossil sites. Typical age: 454–450 million years (Ordovician).

13Fossil sites
31Finds
454–450 million yearsTypical age
OrdovicianMain period

Where its fossils were found

Fjäcka Shale
Ordovician

By geological period

Ordovician13

What was found

Trilobites · 31Tretaspis, Triarthrus, Lonchodomas, Flexicalymene, Raphiophorus, Remopleurides, Phillipsinella, Primaspis, Telephina, Acidaspis, Proetus, Amphitryon, Nankinolithus, Pseudosphaerexochus, Decoroproetus, Stygina

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Other formations of the same period

Ordovician