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Fossil specimen : NMW 77.31G.1 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Phacopida

Fossil Name Tapinocalymene vulpecula Siveter, 1980
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Tapinocalymene vulpecula Siveter, 1980 – See Siveter (1980): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. 77.31G.1
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Siveter, D.J.
Held By Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Logo Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Letton, Herefordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coalbrookdale Formation
Biozone lundgreni
Geological Age

Homerian Age (Silurian Period) (427.4 – 430.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Siveter, D J. 1980. Evolution of the Silurian trilobite Tapinocalymene from the Wenlock of the Welsh borderlands. Palaeontology, Vol. 23, 783-802. p.792, pl.100, figs 1,2, text figs 2G,2H

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