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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM87205b – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Corynexochida

Fossil Name Ectillaenus bergaminus Whittard
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Ectillaenus bergaminus Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM87205b
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person WF Whittard 1962
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Bergam Quarry, Tankerville Mine, Shropshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Arenig Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone hirundo
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, 1961, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire, pt. VI" p.209-211 pl. XXVII 8

Available Images

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