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Fossil specimen : NMW 29.197.G1 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Merostomata

      Order Xiphosura

Fossil Name Bellinurus truemani Dix & Pringle, 1929
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Bellinurus truemani Dix & Pringle, 1929 – See Dix and Pringle (1929): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. 29.197.G1
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Dix, E.
Held By Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Logo Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Cwmgorse, Neath Port Talbot
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (308 – 319 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Dix, E. and Pringle, J. 1929. On the fossil Xiphosura from the South Wales Coalfield, with a note on the myriapid Euphoberia. Summary of the Progress of the Geological Survey, London, for 1928, 90-114. p.94, tex-fig.3

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