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Fossil specimen : SM A 11771 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Ampyx binodulosus Reed
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Ampyx binodulosus Reed: Holotype

Ampyx tumidus Forbes

Provenance
Registration No. A 11771
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Nicholson
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Keisley, Westmorland, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Keisley Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 449 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Nicholson, H.A. & Marr, J.E. 1891. The Cross Fell Inlier (with appendices by Alfred Harker and A.H. Foord) Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London volume 47 pages 500-529 (1): p.507

Reed, F.R.C. 1896. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lii (2): p.409 pl. xxi fig.1

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