Name: Metabowmania sp. nov.
Locality: Hwy 6/50, Great Basin, Utah
Stratigraphy: "unnamed basal ledge-forming limestone member" Fillmore
Formation, Pogonip Group, Lower Ordovician
Remarks: Found by Sterling Morgan.
Comments: This specimen is on its way to Jonathan Adrain at the Univ. of Iowa. Dr. Adrain has identified it as an Ordovician Metabowmania sp. nov. from the "unnamed basal ledge-forming limestone member" of the Fillmore formation. He is including the find as a new type specimen in his upcoming monograph he is co-authoring with Dr. Stephen Westrop on Ordovician trilobites. The new paper is due for publication in 06.
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