GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Ptychopariida

Acanthopleurella grindrodi Groom, 1902 – See Morris (1988): Holotype

Acanthopleurella grindrodi Groom, 1902 – See Fortey & Rushton (1980): Holotype

Acanthopleurella grindrodi Groom, 1902 – See Edmonds (1949): Holotype

Acanthopleurella grindrodi Groom, 1902 – See Lake (1946): Holotype

Shumardia pusilla (Sars, 1835) – See Lake (1907)

Acanthopleurella grindrodi Groom, 1902 – See Groom (1902): Holotype

Conophrys salopiensis Callaway, 1877 – See Callaway (1877): Syntype

Tremadoc Series (Ordovician Period) (477.7 – 485.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Tremadocian Age ]

CALLAWAY, C. 1877. On a new area of Upper Cambrian rocks in South Shropshire, with a description of a new fauna. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., XXXIII, 652-670. pp. 660, 667

EDMONDS, J.M. 1949. Type and figured specimens of Lower Palaeozoic trilobites in the University Museum, Oxford. Geol. Mag., 86, 57-66. p. 60

FORTEY, R.A. & RUSHTON, A.W.A. 1980. Acanthopleurella Groom, 1902 : origin and life habits of a miniature trilobite. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geol.), 33 (2), 79-89. pp. 81, 86; fig. 4

GROOM, T.T. 1902. On a new trilobite from the Dictyonema Shales of the Malvern Hills. Geol. Mag., New Series, Dec. IV, XXXIX, 70-73. p. 70; figs 1 - 3

LAKE, P. 1907. A Monograph of the British Cambrian trilobites, part 2. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 29-48, pls III, IV. pp. 40, 42; pl. IV, fig. 3

LAKE, P. 1946. A Monograph of the British Cambrian trilobites, part 14, with Appendix. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 333-350, pl. XLVII. p. 341

MORRIS, S.F. 1988. A review of British trilobites, including a synoptic revision of Salter's monograph. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-316. p. 8