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Gog (trilobite)

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Extinct genus of trilobites

Gog
Temporal range: Middle to Late Arenig
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Asaphida
Family: †Asaphidae
Genus: †Gog
Fortey, 1975
Species
  • Gog catillus Fortey, 1975
  • Gog yangtzeensis

Gog is a genus of large, flattened asaphid trilobite from the Middle Arenig-aged Svalbard, Valhallfonna Formation, Olenidsletta, Member, of Spitzbergen, Norway (G. catillus), and the Upper Arenig-aged Dawan Formation in Hubei, China (G. yangtzeensis).

References

  1. Fortey, R.A. (1975). The Ordovician Trilobites of Spitsbergen [II. Asaphidae, Nileidae, Raphiophoridae and Telephinidae of the Valhallfonna Formation]. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter. Vol. 162. Oslo: Norsk Polarinstitutt.
  2. Turvey, Samuel T. "Asaphoid trilobites from the Arenig–Llanvirn of the South China plate." Palaeontology 50.2 (2007): 347-399.
Taxon identifiers
Gog catillus


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