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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM23042 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Stapeleyella murchisonii Salter
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Stapeleyella murchisonii Salter

Provenance
Registration No. GSM23042
Collector Museum 1856
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Cefn Gwnlle, Shelve Llanvirn
Grid Reference Not available
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

Salter 1866 Mem Geol Surv III pl. 11B fig 4

Salter in Murchison Siluria 1859 Page 50 Woodcut Fossil No 8 fig 7 Woodcut Fossil No 8

Whittard, WF, 1956, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire" p.39-40 pl. 5 fig 7

Available Images

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