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3 unusual facts about Richard Fortey


Harpetida

The subclass Librostoma was created in 1990 by Richard Fortey to cover the orders formally included with the Ptychopariida.

Proetida

These typically small trilobites resemble those of the order Ptychopariida, from which the new order Proetida was only recently separated in 1975 by Fortey and Owens.

Richard Fortey

He has also turned his pen to writing dinosaur poems for children and even a spoof book on the Rubik's Cube.



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