GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

?Megalaspidella murchisonae (Murchison, 1839) – See Bates (1969)

Ogygiocaris murchisonae (Murchison, 1839) – See Whittard (1964)

Ogygiocaris menapiensis (Hicks, 1873) – See Whittard (1964): Paralectotype

Niobe menapiensis Hicks, 1873 – See Edmonds (1949): Syntype

?Ogyginus menapiensis (Hicks, 1873) – See Reed (1931): Syntype

Niobe menapiensis Hicks, 1873 – See Hicks (1873): Syntype

Arenig Series (Ordovician Period) (465.5 – 477.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Mid Ordovician Epoch – Early Ordovician Epoch ]

BATES, D.E.B. 1969. Some early Arenig brachiopods and trilobites from Wales. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geology), 18 (1), 1-28. pp. 18, 20; pl. 7, fig. 1

EDMONDS, J.M. 1949. Type and figured specimens of Lower Palaeozoic trilobites in the University Museum, Oxford. Geol. Mag., 86, 57-66. p. 61

HICKS, H. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil content. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., XXIX (1), 39-52. pp. 46-47, 52; pl. IV, fig. 3

REED, F.R.C. 1931. A review of the British species of the Asaphidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., series 10, VII, 441-472. pp. 461 - 462

WHITTARD, W.F. 1964. The Ordovician trilobites of the Shelve Inlier, West Shropshire, part VII. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 229-264, pls XXXIV-XLV. p. 238; pl. XXXVIII, fig. 9

WHITTARD, W.F. 1964. The Ordovician trilobites of the Shelve Inlier, West Shropshire, part VII. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 229-264, pls XXXIV-XLV. p. 238; pl. XXXVIII, fig. 9