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Bardahessiagh ASSI

Last updated: 5 February 2010

Site No ASSI 098
Area 9.6 (ha)
Declared Date 07/12/1995
Confirmed Date 30/04/1996
County Tyrone
Council(s) Cookstown DC
Keywords Earth Science

A highly fossiliferous sequence of Ordovician sediments. The type locality for over 50 species while many additional new species collected in 1992 still await definitive descriptions. One of the most diverse fossil faunas of Caradoc age known and of great palaeogeographical importance.

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