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The Ohio State Fossil

[§ 5.07.1] § 5.071 Official state invertebrate fossil.

Text of Statute

Isotelus, a genus of extinct marine arthropod of the class trilobita, that lived in the seas that covered Ohio during the ordovician period, about four hundred forty million years ago, and represented by the largest known complete trilobite, collected at Huffman dam in Montgomery county, is hereby adopted as the official invertebrate fossil of the state.

History 

HISTORY: 141 v H 145. Eff 9-19-85.

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