Orthoceras

  • UC 57168 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
  • UC 57168 part2 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
  • UC 57168
    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: UC 57168
Taxonomic Name: Orthoceras
FM Catalog: Fossil Invertebrates
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Orthocerida
Family: Orthoceratidae
Period: Ordovician
Formation: Carbondale
Member: Francis Creek Shale
Coordinates Available?: No
EMu IRN: 3880414
Occurrence ID: 54ff004d-8e19-4906-9e06-22ba724cf9fb

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