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Fossil specimen : OUM B.00106 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Phacopida

Fossil Name Atractopyge verrucosa (Dalman, 1827)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Atractopyge verrucosa (Dalman, 1827) – See Morris (1988): Holotype

Atractopyge verrucosa (Dalman, 1827) – See Dean (1971): Holotype

?Calymene verrucosa Dalman, 1827 – See Dalman (1827): Holotype

– See Brongniart (1822)

– See Lhwyd (1698)

Provenance
Registration No. B.00106
Collector Lhwyd, Edward 1697 – 1698
Donor or Associated Person Lhwyd, Edward
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Upper Caradoc-Lower Ashgill
Location
Country Wales
Locality Quarry near Birdshill Farm?, near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit ? Crug Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) – Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 458.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

BRONGNIART, A. 1822. Les Trilobites. 1-65, 143-145. In BRONGNIART, A. and DESMAREST, A.-G. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés Fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques. F.-G. Levrault, Paris. p. 145; pl. IV, fig. 11

DALMAN, J.W. 1827. Om Palaeaderna eller de så kallade Trilobiterna. K. Svenska Vetensk-Akad. Handl., 1826 (2), 113-152, 226-294, pls 1-6. p. 285

DEAN, W.T. 1971. The trilobites of the Chair of Kildare Limestone (Upper Ordovician) of Eastern Ireland. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-60. pp. 36 - 37

LHWYD, E. in LISTER, M. 1698. (IV), Part of a letter from Mr. Edw. Lhwyd to Dr. Martin Lister, Fell. of the Coll. of Phys. and R. S. concerning several regularly Figured Stones lately found by him. Phil. Trans. R. Soc., 20, 279-280. p. 279; pls 79 - 80, fig. 8

MORRIS, S.F. 1988. A review of British trilobites, including a synoptic revision of Salter's monograph. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-316. p. 29

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