The Lorraine Group is a geologic group in the

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and south

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. It preserves

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dating back to the

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start ...

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. The group is host to pyritized

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the At ...

s and other fossils in New York including the

Beecher's Trilobite Bed Beecher's Trilobite Bed is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Late Ordovician (Caradoc) age located within the Frankfort Shale in Cleveland's Glen, Oneida County, New York, USA.Farrell, Úna C., et al., ''Beyond Beecher's Trilobite Bed: Widespread pyritization of soft tissues in the Late Ordovician Taconic foreland basin,'' Geology, v. 37 no. 10 p. 907-910
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References

* Ordovician System of North America Geologic groups of Indiana Geologic groups of Kentucky Geologic groups of New York (state) Geologic groups of Ohio Geologic groups of Tennessee Ordovician Indiana Ordovician Kentucky Ordovician geology of New York (state) Ordovician Ohio Ordovician Ontario Ordovician Quebec Ordovician geology of Tennessee Geologic groups of Ontario Geologic groups of Quebec {{Canada-geologic-formation-stub

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