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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE4665 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Perimecturus parki (Peach)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Perimecturus parki (Peach)

Provenance
Registration No. GSE4665
Collector No name given.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Calciferous Sandstone Series. 1" 32. No Parent Sample Number given.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Wardie Shore - Edinburgh - Midlothian.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Strathclyde Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Brigantian Substage (Carboniferous Period) – Chadian Substage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 346.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Visean Age – Tournaisian Age ]

References
References

Peach BN 1908 Higher Crustacea Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland: Mem Geol Survey plvi.,fig1

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P831636.JP2

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/BGS/P831637.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P832198.JP2

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