Earth:Ordovician fauna of Putilovo village

Putilovo village Stratigraphic range: Middle Ordovician
Type	quarry
Location
Region	Europe
Country	Russia

In a quarry near what is now Putilovo village, Russia (near Saint Petersburg), are large deposits of Ordovician clay. In this clay the most abundant genus is Asaphus, a trilobite.

List of species

Trilobites

Asaphus expansus

Hoplolichoides

Pseudoasaphus

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  Cheirurus

Genus	Species
Asaphus	A. kowalevski, A. expansus, A. latus
Prochasmops	P. praecurrens
Dysplanus	D. acutigenia
Hoplolichoides	H. conicotuberculatus
Cybele	C. panderi
Illaenus	I. tauricornis
Cheirurus	C. sp.
Pseudoasaphus	P. praecurrens
Ptychopyge	P. lesnikova

References

• Yvonne Howells, "Ordovician Trilobites of St. Petersburg Region"

External links

• http://www.indiana9fossils.com/Trilobites/Russian-Trilobites.htm