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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM86787 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Bettonia paucipuncta Whittard
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Bettonia paucipuncta Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM86787
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 Holywell & Whitehouse Brooks, Shropshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Betton Shale Formation
Biozone murchisoni
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Hughes 1971 Bull. BM. NH vol. 20 no. 4 p.161-164 14,fig 8 11

Available Images

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