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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM55479 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Lichida

Fossil Name Exalaspis whittardi sp nov
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Exalaspis whittardi sp nov

Leonaspis erinaceus var salopiensis Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM55479
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Whittard,Prof.WF 1938
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Minsterley-Habberley lane,1/6th ml. from Shrewsbury Main Road,Shropshire.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Purple Shales Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Telychian Age (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 438.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Curtis & Lane '98 Mon Pal Soc vol 152 2 p.84 pl.12,fig.15

Whittard 1938 A Ann Mag Nat Hist Ser 11 vol 1 p.105 pl.III,fig12

Available Images

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/BGS/P817482.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P818006.JP2

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