Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Trilobita Order Asaphida |
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Fossil Name | Merlinia major (Salter) |
Type Status | Lectotype |
Name History | Merlinia major (Salter) Ogyginus? selwyni (Salter) |
Registration No. | GSM59425 |
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Collector | Survey 1849 |
Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
Held By | British Geological Survey |
Comments |
Country | England |
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Locality | White Grit Mine, Shelve, Shropshire |
Grid Reference | Not available |
Rock Unit | Mytton Flags Formation |
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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 | Fortey & Owens 1978 Bull BM (NH) Vol 30 No 3 p.276 Salter 1866 Mem Geol Surv III pl 9 fig 5 Salter in Murchison, Siluria, 1859, Page 53 fossils (9), fig 8 p.53 Fos 9 fig 8 8 Whittard, WF, 1963, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire, pt. VII" p.237 pl 35 fig 3 |
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