Fossil specimen : OUM A.00351 – Syntype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Trilobita Order Ptychopariida |
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| Fossil Name | Sphaerophthalmus humilis (Phillips, 1848) |
| Type Status | Syntype |
| Name History | Sphaerophthalmus humilis (Phillips, 1848) – See Morris (1988): Syntype Olenus humilis Phillips, 1848 – See Phillips (1871): Syntype Olenus humilis Phillips, 1848 – See Phillips (1848): Syntype |
| Registration No. | A.00351 |
|---|---|
| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Phillips, J. |
| Held By |
 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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| Comments | On slab with Ctenopyge sp. |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Raggedstone Hill, between Fowlet's Farm and Whiteleaved Oak, near Malvern, Herefordshire |
| Grid Reference | Available from host institution |
| Rock Unit | White-leaved Oak Shale Formation |
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| Biozone | Peltura scarabaeoides |
| Geological Age |
Merioneth Series (Cambrian Period) (485.4 – 499 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Furongian Epoch – Cambrian Series 3 ] |
| References | MORRIS, S.F. 1988. A review of British trilobites, including a synoptic revision of Salter's monograph. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-316. p. 216; ? syntype PHILLIPS, J. 1848. in PHILLIPS, J. and SALTER, J.W. Palaeontological Appendix to Professor J. Phillips' Memoir on the Malvern Hills, compared with the Palaeozoic districts of Abberley etc. Mem. geol. Surv. G.B., 2 (1), i-xiv., 331-386. ? pp. 55, 347; ? text-figs 4 - 6 PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. ? p. 68; ? diag. XVII, fig. 8 |
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