The trilobite Angelina unstretched |
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| Authors: | RICHARD A FORTEY ROBERT M OWENS |
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| Institution: | Richard A. Fortey is in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, and Robert M. Owens is in the Department of Geology at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. |
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| Abstract: | The early Ordovician trilobite Angelina sedgwickii has hitherto been known only from stretched and squeezed specimens from North Wales. As a classic example of a deformed fossil, it has featured not only in palaeontological but also in structural geology textbooks, and various methodologies have been employed to attempt to restore it to its original shape. Recently discovered specimens from Shropshire, although flattened, are not sheared and preserve the original bilateral symmetry, affording for the first time an opportunity to find out what this trilobite might really have looked like. |
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