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Fossil specimen : BGS Pr574 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Sagavia glans Fortey & Owens
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Sagavia glans Fortey & Owens

Provenance
Registration No. Pr574
Collector J. Pringle
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Ponty-fenni Quarry, Carmarthen
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Arenig Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone B. rushtoni
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.177-178 54a

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P818825.JP2

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/BGS/P820752.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P819363.JP2

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/BGS/P823261.JP2

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