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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM19221 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Phacopida

Fossil Name Lygdozoon weaveri (Salter)
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Lygdozoon weaveri (Salter)

Dalmanites weaveri (Salter)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM19221
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Long's Quarry, Tortworth, Gloucestershire.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Llandovery Epoch (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Curtis & Lane 1998 Mon Pal Soc Vol 152 Pt 2 p.69 Pl. 8, fig. 10

Curtis 1958 Palaeontology Vol 1 Pt 2 p.143-145 Pl. 29, fig. 10

Reed 1909 Geol Mag Dec V 6 p.69-73

Reed F R C 1909 Geol Mag Dec V 6 p.69-73

Salter 1864 'Mon Brit Trilobites' Palaeont Soc p.57 Pl. 4, fig. 7

Whittard 1938 Ann Mag Nat Hist Ser 11 Vol 1 p.132

Available Images

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