Pentamerus

  • PE 4276
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: IMLS Silurian Reef digitization Project 2013, image of specimen
  • PE 4276
    Creator: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    Creator: Nicole A. Karpus : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: The whole specimen of aSilurian halysitid coral from the Chicago area. Digitized for the 2013 IMLS Silurian Reef Digitization Project.
  • PE 4275
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: IMLS Silurian Reef digitization Project 2013, image of specimen
  • PE 4276
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: IMLS Silurian Reef digitization Project 2013, image of label
Catalog Number: PE 4276
Taxonomic Name: Pentamerus
FM Catalog: Fossil Invertebrates
Object Kind: Hand Specimen
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Pentamerida
Identified By: Nancy Robertson
Period: Silurian
Earliest Age: Niagaran
Formation: Racine Dolomite - Port Byron Dolomite
Coordinates Available?: Yes
Country: United States of America
State/Province/Territory: Illinois
County: Cook
Township: Thornton
EMu IRN: 2381373
Occurrence ID: 9f16ef30-7e99-4d82-894a-333d6b57c31a

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