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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM92990a – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Marrolithus craticulatus Whittard
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Marrolithus craticulatus Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM92990a
Collector WF Whittard 1957
Donor or Associated Person WF Whittard 1957
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Castle Ring, Shropshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llanvirn Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone bifidus
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Whittard, WF, 1956, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire" p.51-53 Vi fig. 12

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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/BGS/P813766.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

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