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Fossil specimen : BGS By9095 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Merlinia anxia Rushton & Hughes
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Merlinia anxia Rushton & Hughes

Provenance
Registration No. By9095
Collector Survey 1966
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Great Paxton BH
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llanvirn Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P810991.jp2

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/BGS/P825779.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P811281.jp2

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