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Ohio Rev. Code § 5.071

State invertebrate fossil.

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Ohio Rev. Code § 5.071, State invertebrate fossil, Ohio, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-25, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1162383
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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.