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Fossil specimen : SM A 277 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Agnostida

Fossil Name Agnostus typicalis Nicholas
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Agnostus typicalis Nicholas: Holotype

Agnostus acutilobus Matthew

Provenance
Registration No. A 277
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Nicholas, Tressilian Charles (1888-1989)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Pared Mawr (scree at foot of cliff), Porth Caered, Abersoch, Wales (N.)
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Caered Mudstone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Cambrian Series 3 ]

References
References

Nicholas, T.C. 1915. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxxi (1): p.97

Nicholas, T.C. 1916 for 1915. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxxi (2): p.454 pl. xxxix fig.2

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