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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM89483 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Merostomata

      Order Eurypterida

Fossil Name Hughmilleria (Nanahughmilleria) pygmaea (Salter)
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Hughmilleria (Nanahughmilleria) pygmaea (Salter)

Eurypterus n sp

Provenance
Registration No. GSM89483
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Banks,RW 1855
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Kington, Hereford.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Silurian Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Silurian Period (Silurian Period) (419.2 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Banks 1856 Quart Jour Geol Soc XII pl.II,fig.4a

Kjellesvig-Waering 1961 Journ of Pal 35 4 p.801-803

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P813996.JP2

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