Pacific Province

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Pacific Province (American Province) The name given to the trilobite (Trilobita) and graptolite (Graptolithina) faunas characteristic of the northern and western margins of the Iapetus Ocean in the Early Palaeozoic. See also ATLANTIC PROVINCE.

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