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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of opisthoparian trilobites having a well-defined glabella, twelve to fifteen thoracic segments, and a small pygidium: characteristic of the Upper Cambrian rocks, the Olenus horizon, or Olenidian stage.

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