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Fossil specimen : OUM C.00774 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Proetida

Fossil Name Proetus (s.l.) falcatus Owens, 1973
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Proetus (s.l.) falcatus Owens, 1973 – See Owens (1973): Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. C.00774
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person ? Grindrod, R.B. 1882 – 1883
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Malvern Railway Tunnel, Herefordshire or Worcestershire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coalbrookdale Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Homerian Age (Silurian Period) – Sheinwoodian Age (Silurian Period) (427.4 – 433.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

OWENS, R.M. 1973. British Ordovician and Silurian Proetidae (Trilobita). Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 127, 1-98, 15 pls. pp. 23, 24

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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/OUMNH/P850222.jp2

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/OUMNH/P850223.jp2

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Steroscopic photographs

/OUMNH/P855527.jp2

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