Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Trilobita Order - |
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Fossil Name | Otarozoum melmerbiensis (Reed) |
Type Status | Paralectotype |
Name History | Otarozoum melmerbiensis (Reed) – See Whittington, H.B. (2002) Otarozoum melmerbiensis (Reed) – See Thomas, A.T. & Holloway, D.J. (1988): Paralectotype Conolichas melmerbiensis (Reed) – See Whittington, H.B. (1962) Conolichas melmerbiensis (Reed) – See Dean (1962a): Paratype Lichas (Homolichas) melmerbiensis Reed – See Reed, F.R.C. (1907): Syntype |
Registration No. | A 29642 |
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Collector | Name not available |
Donor or Associated Person | Turnbull, V.M. |
Held By | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge |
Comments | part and counterpart : (parts a-b) |
Country | England |
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Locality | Alston Road, Melmerby, Cumberland, England |
Grid Reference | Not available |
Rock Unit | Lower Melmerby Bed (matrix) |
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Biozone | Not available |
Geological Age |
Cheneyan Stage (Ordovician Period) (451.5 – 452.75 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Katian Age ] |
References | Dean 1962 a. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 7 p.120 pl.18 fig.2 (a.29, 642a) Reed, F.R.C. 1907. Geological Magazine dec. v vol. iv p.396 pl. xvii fig.6 (a.29, 642a) Thomas, A.T. & Holloway, D.J. 1988. Classification and phylogeny of the trilobite Order Lichida. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 321: 179-262. A 29642 a figured Plate 8, Fig. 163. Whittington, H.B. 1962. A monograph of the Ordovician Trilobites of the Bala area, Merioneth Palaeontographical Society Monographs p.24 Whittington, H.B. 2002. Lichidae (Trilobita): morphology and classification. Journal of Paleontology 76: 306-320. p.316 |
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