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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM92948 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Ampyx linleyensis Whittard
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Ampyx linleyensis Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM92948
Collector Whittard 1956
Donor or Associated Person Whittard 1956
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Nind Quarry, Linley, Salop
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, 1955, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire" p.20 2, fig. 7

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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