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Fossil specimen : SM A 15627 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Barrandia homfrayi Hicks
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Barrandia homfrayi Hicks – See Whittard, W.F. (1961): Holotype

Barrandia homfrayi Hicks – See Woods, H. (1891)

Barrandia homfrayi Hicks – See Hicks (1875b): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 15627
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 Llanvirn Quarry, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llanvirn Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) (460.5 – 465.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Hicks 1875 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxxi p.185 pl. ix fig.8

Whittard, W.F. 1961. The Ordovician trilobites of the Shelve Inlier, West Shropshire Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. 17 p.222 pl. xxxi fig.6

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 p.140

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