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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM48529Cprt – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Merostomata

      Order Xiphosura

Fossil Name Euproops meeki Dix & Pringle
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Euproops meeki Dix & Pringle

Provenance
Registration No. GSM48529Cprt
Collector British Geological Survey 1902
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures - Roof of Mynddislwyn Seam - Tenuis Zone.
Location
Country Wales
Locality Gwernau Level - SE of Maes-y-Cwmmer - Monmouth.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Dix & Pringle 1928 Summ Prog Geol Surv Part II p.108 Text-fig 13

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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