''Landyia'' is a
trilobite in the order
Phacopida, that existed during the lower
Ordovician in what is now
Australia
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. It was described by Jell in 1985, and the
type species is ''Landyia elizabethae''. The
type locality
Type locality may refer to:
* Type locality (biology)
* Type locality (geology)
See also
* Local (disambiguation)
* Locality (disambiguation)
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was the
Digger Island Formation in
Victoria.
Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
References
External links
''Landyia''
at the Paleobiology Database
Pilekiidae
Phacopida genera
Fossil taxa described in 1985
Ordovician trilobites
Trilobites of Oceania
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