GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Phacopida

Placoparina sedgwickii (M'coy): Holotype

Placoparina sedgwicki (McCoy): Holotype

Placoparina sedgwicki (McCoy): Holotype

Cheirurus (Eccoptochile) sedgwicki (McCoy)

Cheirurus (Eccoptochile) sedgwicki (McCoy)

Cheirurus (Eccoptochile) sedgwicki (McCoy)

Eccoptochile sedgwicki (McCoy)

Cryphaeus (Eccoptochile) sedgwickii (McCoy): Holotype

Llandeilian Stage (Ordovician Period) (458.4 – 460.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

Hughes 1969. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 18 (8): p.79 pl.8 fig. 4(a.15616 b), fig.5(a.15616 a), pl.9 fig.3 (a.15616 b)

McCoy 1849 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 vol. iv (1): p.406

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.155 pl. if fig.14

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.145

Salter 1854. A monograph of the British trilobites from the Cambrian, Silurian and Devonian formations Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.73 pl. v fig.17

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.33

Whittard, W.F. 1940 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (11) vol. v (6): p.166 pl. c figs. 5(a.15616 a), 6(a.15616 b)

Whittard, W.F. 1958. The Ordovician trilobites of the Shelve Inlier, West Shropshire Palaeontographical Society Monographs (7): pp.113, 115

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.142