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Fossil specimen : NMW 72.6G.1 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Rhynchonellata

      Order Orthida

Fossil Name Visbyella trewerna Bassett, 1972
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Visbyella trewerna Bassett, 1972 – See Bassett (1972): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. 72.6G.1
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Palmer, D.
Held By Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Logo Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Trewern Brook, Trewern, Long Mountain, Welshpool, Powys
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Glyn Member, Trewern Brook Mudstone Formation
Biozone nassa
Geological Age

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

References
References

Bassett, M.G. 1972. The articulate brachiopods from the Wenlock Series of the Welsh Borderland and South Wales. Part 2. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London, 27-78. p.55, pl.11, fig. 15 a,b

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