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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM35600 – Undifferentiated Type

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name ?Asaphid sp
Type Status Undifferentiated Type
Name History

?Asaphid sp

Illaenus (quadrato) caudatus Portlock

Provenance
Registration No. GSM35600
Collector Portlock
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Museum label states [TYPE]
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Desertcreight, Tyrone
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Ordovician Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Ordovician Period (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 485.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Portlock, 1843, Geol.Rep.Londonderry, etc op.cit. Page 302 pl 24 fig 2

Reed 1952 Proc.Roy.Irish. Aca., 55, B No. 3 Page 115 [as genus doubtful-? Asaphid]

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P817612.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P818043.JP2

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