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Fossil specimen : SM A 9570 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Phacopida

Fossil Name Neseuretus parvifrons (McCoy)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Neseuretus parvifrons (McCoy): Holotype

Neseuretus parvifrons (Salter): Holotype

Synhomalonotus parvifrons (Salter): Holotype

Calymene parvifrons Salter

Calymene parvifrons Salter

Calymene parvifrons Salter

Calymene parvifrons Salter

Calymene parvifrons Salter: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 9570
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Tahirion, Arenig Fawr, Merionethshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Henllan Ash
Biozone extensus
Geological Age

Arenig Series (Ordovician Period) (465.5 – 477.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Mid Ordovician Epoch – Early Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (1): p.167 pl. i f figs.7, 7 ain appendix

Salter 1855. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (Appendix to McCoy) (2): p. iiiin Appendix A to McCoy

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.22

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (2): p.22

Salter, J.W. 1865. A monograph of the British trilobites from the Cambrian, Silurian and Devonian formations Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.101 fig.22 pl. ix fig.25

Shirley 1931. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society vol. lxxv (6): p.10 pl. i figs.1, 2

Whittard, W.F. 1960 for 1959. The Ordovician trilobites of the Shelve Inlier, West Shropshire Palaeontographical Society Monographs (7): p.142 pl. xix figs.1-2

Whittington, H.B. 1966 b. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. xi (8): pp.500, 502

Whittington, H.B. 1966 b. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. xi (4): p.500,502

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 (5): p.141

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