Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Trilobita Order Asaphida |
---|---|
Fossil Name | Merlinia murchisoniae (Murchison), 1839 |
Type Status | Syntype |
Name History | Merlinia murchisoniae (Murchison), 1839 Ogygiocaris murchisoniae (Murchison) Ogygia selwyni Salter Niobe menapiensis Hicks Niobe menapiensis Hicks: Syntype |
Registration No. | A 16724 a |
---|---|
Collector | Name not available |
Donor or Associated Person | Homfray, David (1822-1893) |
Held By | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge |
Comments | part and counterpart : (parts a-b) |
Country | Wales |
---|---|
Locality | Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales |
Grid Reference | Not available |
Rock Unit | Tremadoc Rocks |
---|---|
Biozone | Not available |
Geological Age |
Tremadoc Series (Ordovician Period) (477.7 – 485.4 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Tremadocian Age ] |
References | Fortey & Owens 1978. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 30 (5): p.277 Hicks 1873 a. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxix (1): p.46 pl. iv fig.1 Whittard, W.F. 1964 for 1963. The Ordovician trilobites of the Shelve Inlier, West Shropshire Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): p.238Hick's fig. 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 (2): p.148 |
---|
View these images in your web browser using our JPEG2000 viewer. Zoom in and out and pan around in high resolution. Requires JavaScript to be enabled.
Download these images as high resolution JPEG2000 files. You may need to use image-editing software to view these files.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |