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Fossil specimen : SM A 40324 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order -

Fossil Name Madygenia brachypyga (Marr & Nicholson), 1888
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Madygenia brachypyga (Marr & Nicholson), 1888 – See Owens, R.M. (2004): Lectotype

Proetus brachypygus Marr & Nicholson – See Woods, H. (1891)

Proetus brachypygus Marr & Nicholson – See Marr & Nicholson (1888a): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 40324
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Marr, J.E.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Pull Beck, Windermere, Lake District
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Skelgill Bed (Ac2)
Biozone A. aloniensis
Geological Age

Llandovery Epoch (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Marr & Nicholson 1888 a. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xliv pp.687, 725, 729 pl. xvi fig.19 (in explanation of pl.1 fig.18 on pl. xvi)

Owens, R.M. 2004. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian Proetida (Trilobita) from North-Western and Central Europe. Palaeontology, 47, 557-578, 2 pls. p.571; Text-fig. 1H

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.151

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