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Fossil specimen : SM A 11910 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Lichida

Fossil Name Dicranopeltis polytoma (Angelin), 1854
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Dicranopeltis polytoma (Angelin), 1854

Dicranopeltis bifurcata (Reed)

Lichas (Dicranopeltis) bulbiceps Reed

Lichas bifurcatus Reed: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 11910
Collector Reed, F.R.C.
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 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

Dean 1974. The trilobites of the Chair of Kildare limestone (Upper Ordovician) of Eastern Ireland Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): p.80 pl.35 figs.7,9,12

Reed, F.R.C. 1896. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lii (1): p.431 pl. xxi fig.7

Tripp 1955. Journal of Paleontology vol. xxxii (3): p.580

Warburg 1925. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala vol. xvii (2): p.295

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