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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM7618 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Bohemopyge scutatrix (Salter)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Bohemopyge scutatrix (Salter)

Ogygia peltata Salter

Ogygia scutatrix Salter

Niobe peltata

Niobe scutatrix (Salter)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM7618
Collector Survey 1855
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality St. David's Head Bay
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

Fortey & Owens 1987 Bull BM (NH) Geology 41(3) p.136 25(a)

Lake P., 1946, Mon.Brit.Camb.Trilobites p.337 p.337

Reed 1931 Ann Mag Nat Hist (10) 7 p.466

Salter, 1866, Mem Geol Surv Vol 3 pl.12 fig.8

in Murchison (1859), 'Siluria' 3rd. edt., woodcut 9 fig.1 woodcut 9 fig.1

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