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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM35209 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Ostracoda

      Order Leperditicopida

Fossil Name Leperditia solvensis Jones 1856
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Leperditia solvensis Jones 1856

Primitia solvensis Jones

Indiarites ?solvensis (Jones)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM35209
Collector Gibbs 1855
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Solva Harbour, St. Davids
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Menevian Group
Biozone P. davidis
Geological Age

St David's Series (Cambrian Period) (499 – 508 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Cambrian Series 3 ]

References
References

T.R. Jones, 1856. Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist., Vol.17 p.95 pl.7, fig.16

Ulrich & Bassler 1931. Proc. U.S.N.Mus., Vol.78, 4 p.83 pl.9, fig.29

Williams & Siveter, 1998. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, no. 607, Vol.152 pl.3 fig.7

Available Images

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