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Large Didymograptus Graptolite Fossil from Ordovician Era - UK Museum Quality Specimen

Large Didymograptus Graptolite Fossil from Ordovician Era – UK Museum Quality Specimen

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Description

SIZE (Picture scale cube=1cm): 60-160mm (Range)

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Name: Didymograptus sp.
Genus: Graptolite
Age: Ordovician
Location Found: Abereiddy Bay, Wales, UK

Graptolites are colonial fossils who lived from the Upper Cambrian through the Lower Carboniferous Period. The name graptolite comes from the Greek graptos, meaning “written”, & lithos, meaning “rock”, as many graptolite fossils resemble hieroglyphs written on the rock.

WILL DIFFER TO PHOTO: The image shows an example of the single specimen you will receive. This will be picked from our stock box graded and with a size approximately within the size range indicated. It will not be the same specimen shown in the photo, the colours, shape, size and style may vary as with any natural item. To guarantee the specimen you receive will be representative by that in photo, we would always recommend the Actual as seen version of this item.

Additional information

Origin

United Kingdom
Era

Ordovician

Ordovician Information

The Ordovician Period (485–443 million years ago) was a time of marine expansion and biodiversity growth, following the Cambrian Explosion. Warm, shallow seas covered much of the continents, supporting trilobites, brachiopods, corals, and the first true reefs. Jawless fish (early vertebrates) diversified, and the first sea scorpions (eurypterids) became dominant predators. On land, the first primitive plants (moss-like bryophytes) began colonizing damp environments. The climate was initially warm, but by the late Ordovician, a major ice age caused a drastic drop in sea levels, triggering the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction, which wiped out nearly 85% of marine species. Despite this, the period laid the foundation for the rise of more complex ecosystems in the Silurian.

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