Fossil specimen : OUM C.00004 – Paralectotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Trilobita Order Corynexochida |
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| Fossil Name | Failleana maccallumi (Salter, 1867) |
| Type Status | Paralectotype |
| Name History | Failleana maccallumi (Salter, 1867) – See Morris (1988): Paralectotype Opsypharus maccallumi (Salter, 1867) – See Howells (1982): Paralectotype Illaenus (Bumastus) maccallumi Salter, 1867 – See Edmonds (1949): Syntype Illaenus maccallumi Salter, 1867 – See Reed (1904): Syntype Illaenus (Bumastus) maccallumi Salter, 1867 – See Salter (1867): Syntype |
| Registration No. | C.00004 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Wyville Thomson, Sir C. |
| Held By |
 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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| Comments |
| Country | Scotland |
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| Locality | Mulloch, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Grid Reference | Available from host institution |
| Rock Unit | Mulloch Hill Formation |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Rhuddanian Age (Silurian Period) (440.8 – 443.8 Ma B.P.) |
| References | EDMONDS, J.M. 1949. Type and figured specimens of Lower Palaeozoic trilobites in the University Museum, Oxford. Geol. Mag., 86, 57-66. p. 64 HOWELLS, Y. 1982. Scottish Silurian Trilobites. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 135, 1-76, pls 1-15. p. 11; pl. 2, fig. 14 MORRIS, S.F. 1988. A review of British trilobites, including a synoptic revision of Salter's monograph. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-316. p. 258 REED, F.R.C. 1904. The Lower Palaeozoic trilobites of the Girvan district, Ayrshire, part II. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 49-96, pls VII-XIII. p. 65 SALTER, J.W. 1867. A Monograph of the British Trilobites from the Cambrian, Silurian, and Devonian formations, part 4. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 177-214, pls XXV*-XXX. p. 210; pl. XXX, fig. 2 |
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