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Fossil specimen : BGS GM103612 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Rhactorthis crassa Williams
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Rhactorthis crassa Williams

Provenance
Registration No. GM103612
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person BM(NH)
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Craigian Bychain
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Gelli-Grin Calcareous Ash Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Woolstonian Substage (Ordovician Period) – Longvillian Substage (Ordovician Period) (452.1 – 454 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Katian Age – Sandbian Age ]

References
References

Williams 1963, Bull BM(NH) vol.8 no.7 pl.4, fig.3

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P815224.JP2

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