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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM10213a – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Cermatops discoidalis (Salter)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Cermatops discoidalis (Salter)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM10213a
Collector Survey 1853
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Ogof-Ddu
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Dolgellau Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Merioneth Series (Cambrian Period) (485.4 – 499 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Furongian Epoch – Cambrian Series 3 ]

References
References

Hughes & Rushton. 1990. Palaeontology p.433 pl. 1 fig. 7

Kobayashi. 1935. Jap. Journ. Geol. & Geogr p.52

Lake. 1919. British Cambrian Trilobites. Mon. Palaeont. Soc p.115 pl. 14 fig. 5

Salter. 1866. Mem. Geol. Surv p.304 pl. 5 fig. 18a

Available Images

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