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Fossil specimen : SM A 57082 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Agnostida

Fossil Name Acidiscus theristes Rushton
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Acidiscus theristes Rushton: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 57082
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Rushton, Adrian William Amsler
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Camp Hill, St. Paul's Church, Stockingford, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Purley Shale (c. 450' above base)
Biozone Protolenus
Geological Age

St David's Series (Cambrian Period) – Comley Series (Cambrian Period) (499 – 526 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Cambrian Series 3 – Terreneuvian Epoch ]

References
References

Rushton, A.W.A. 1966. The Cambrian Trilobites from the Purley Shales of Warwickshire Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1): p.16 pl.1 figs.20 a, b

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