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Ogyginus

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Ogyginus
Temporal range: 488–443 Ma Ordovician
Ogyginus corndensis
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Asaphoidea
Genus:
Asaphidae
Species
  • O. corndensis

Ogyginus (Raymond, 1912) is an extinct genus of asaphid trilobite that lived during the Ordovician period. Commonly found in Wales. The type specimen was first described by Murchison in 1839 as Asaphus corndensis, though the species was later reassigned.

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