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Little River ASSI

Last updated: 5 February 2010

 

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Site No ASSI 097
Area 2.1 (ha)
Declared Date 30/11/1995
Confirmed Date 29/04/1996
County Tyrone
Council(s) Cookstown DC
Keywords Earth Science

            

             

  

  

 

An important historical palaeontological locality. The type locality for over 60 fossil species including 2 important genotype species. It is one of only two localities in Northern Ireland exhibiting a shelly fauna in a Silurian graptolitic setting.

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