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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM102429a – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Bergamia matura Whittard
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Bergamia matura Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM102429a
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person WF Whittard 1966
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Snail Beach quarry, Salop
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Arenig Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

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

References
References

Whittard, WF, 1966, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire, pt. VIII" p.280 XLVIII 11

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P814422.JP2

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/BGS/P814441.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P815204.JP2

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