Lituites

  • P 17041 label
    Photographer: Ms. Dana A. Kahn : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 2018 Summer IMLS Ordovician Digitization Project. Cephalopod label
  • P 17041
    Photographer: Ms. Dana A. Kahn : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 2018 Summer IMLS Ordovician Digitization Project. Cephalopod fossil
Catalog Number: P 17041
Taxonomic Name: Lituites
FM Catalog: Fossil Invertebrates
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Lituitida
Family: Lituitidae
Period: Ordovician
Formation: Carbondale
Member: Francis Creek Shale
Coordinates Available?: No
Country: United States of America
State/Province/Territory: Illinois
County: Kane
Township: Elgin
EMu IRN: 3871476
Occurrence ID: cc9e6a94-9ba8-4764-97e4-4e5c4d616c95

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