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Fossil specimen : OUM A.00173 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Redlichiida

Fossil Name Paradoxides sedgwicki (Hicks, 1871)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Paradoxides sedgwicki (Hicks, 1871) – See Edmonds (1949): Syntype

Paradoxides sedgwicki (Hicks, 1871) – See Lake (1906): Syntype

Plutonia sedgwickii Hicks, 1871 – See Hicks (1871): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A.00173
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Hicks, H. 1875
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Wax cast of artificial intaglio is Sedgwick Museum A.1078
Location
Country Wales
Locality Headland near Nun's Well, St David's, Pembrokeshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Solva Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

St David's Series (Cambrian Period) (499 – 508 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Cambrian Series 3 ]

References
References

EDMONDS, J.M. 1949. Type and figured specimens of Lower Palaeozoic trilobites in the University Museum, Oxford. Geol. Mag., 86, 57-66. p. 59

HICKS, H. 1871. Descriptions of new species of fossils from the Longmynd Rocks of St. David's. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., XXVII, 399-404. pp. 399, 402; pl. XV, fig. 2

LAKE, P. 1906. A Monograph of the British Cambrian trilobites, part 1. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-28, pls I, II. pp. 221 - 222

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