GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Ogyginus laticostatus (Salter), 1866: Holotype

Asaphus (Basilicus) laticostatus (McCoy)

Asaphus laticostatus (McCoy non Green)

Asaphus (Basilicus) laticostatus (McCoy)

Isotelus (Basilicus) laticostatus (Green)

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) – Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) (449 – 465.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch – Darriwilian Age ]

Hughes 1979. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 32 (5): p.138 fig.109

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (1): pp.170, 366 pl. i e fig.18 a

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.33

Salter, J.W. 1866. Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.158 pl. xviii 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 (4): p.140