UGA Stratigraphy Lab

The data is in the strata

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• Steven Holland

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Achatella

Achatella sp.
MUGM 28766 and 28568
scale bar is 0.5 mm

Species

Achatella carleyi (Meek, 1873)
Occurrence: Fulton, Fairmount
Reference: Dalvé, 1948; Ludvigsen and Chatterton, 1982
Also known as Pterygometopus carleyi, but Ludvigsen and Chatterton (1982) report that Achatella is the only pterygometopine occurring in the Ordovician rocks of Laurentia

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