Fossil specimen : SM A 33958 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Trilobita Order Corynexochida |
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| Fossil Name | Illaenus latus McCoy |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Illaenus latus McCoy Illaenus (Dysplanus) bowmanni Salter Illaenus (Dysplanus) bowmanni Salter Illaenus bowmanni Salter Illaenus latus McCoy: Holotype Illaenus latus McCoy |
| Registration No. | A 33958 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | Scotland |
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| Locality | Wray Quarry (Wrae Quarry, McCoy 1852), Upper Tweed (Tweed, Salter 1873), Broughton, Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Bala Limestone |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) – Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 458.4 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ] |
| References | McCoy 1849 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 vol. iv (1): p.404 McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.172 pl. ie figs.17, 17 a McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.143 Nicholson & Etheridge, R. 1880. A monograph of the Silurian Fossils in Ayrshire vol. i fasc. ii (5): p.156 Reed, F.R.C. 1904 b. The lower Palaeozoic trilobites of the Girvan district, Ayrshire Palaeontographical Society Monographs (7): p.63 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.54, b 188 Salter 1883. A monograph of the British trilobites from the Cambrian, Silurian and Devonian formations Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): p.215 fig.55 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 (6): p.146 |
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