Fossil specimen : SM A 524 – Syntype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Trilobita Order Asaphida |
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| Fossil Name | Niobe (Niobella) homfrayi Salter |
| Type Status | Syntype |
| Name History | Niobe (Niobella) homfrayi Salter Niobe homfrayi Salter Niobe homfrayi Salter Niobe homfrayi Salter: Syntype Niobe homfrayi Salter: Syntype |
| Registration No. | A 524 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Homfray, David (1822-1893) |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | Wales |
|---|---|
| Locality | Penmorfa Church, Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire, Wales |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Lower Tremadoc Slate |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Tremadoc Series (Ordovician Period) (477.7 – 485.4 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Tremadocian Age ] |
| References | Lake 1942. A monograph of the British Cambrian Trilobites Palaeontographical Society Monographs (5): p.330 pl. xlvi fig.7 Ramsay 1866 a. The geology of North Wales Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales 1st edition (2): p.314 pl. vi fig.5 appendix Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.15 Salter, J.W. 1866. Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1): p.143 pl. xx fig.12 [ reversed] Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 (4): p.148 |
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