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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM102179 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Incaia simplicior Whittard
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Incaia simplicior Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM102179
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person W.F. Whittard 1966
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments plus counterpart
Location
Country England
Locality Snailbeach quarry, Salop
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Mytton Flags Formation
Biozone extensus
Geological Age

Arenig Series (Ordovician Period) (465.5 – 477.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Mid Ordovician Epoch – Early Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Hughes, Ingham & Addison, 1975, Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc. B no.920 pl.1 fig.16,17

Whittard, WF, 1966, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire, pt. VIII" p.276 pl.XLVII fig.7

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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