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Fossil specimen : NMW 71.6G.239 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Proetida

Fossil Name Radnoria triquetra Owens & Thomas, 1975
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Radnoria triquetra Owens & Thomas, 1975 – See Owens & Thomas (1975): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. 71.6G.239
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Owens, R.M.
Held By Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Logo Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Wren's Nest Hill, Dudley, West Midlands
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Nodular Beds, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Owens, R M. and Thomas, A T. 1975. Radnoria, a new Silurian proetacean trilobite, and the origins of the Brachymetopidae. Palaeontology Vol. 18, 809-822. p.816, pl.96, fig.3 a-c

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