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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM87173 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Ptychopariida

Fossil Name Triarthrus convergens Whittard
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Triarthrus convergens Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM87173
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Whittard 1961
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Oakedge, Salop
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Hope Shale Formation And Weston Flags Formation (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) (460.5 – 465.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Whittard, WF, 1961, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire, pt. VI" p.191 pl. 24 figs 16 & 17

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P815396.JP2

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