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Fossil specimen : BGS BDA1320 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Agnostida

Fossil Name Cristagnostus papilis Rushton
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Cristagnostus papilis Rushton

Oidalagnostus sp A of BGS 35

Provenance
Registration No. BDA1320
Collector Survey
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Merevale
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Outwoods Shale Formation
Biozone pisiformis
Geological Age

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

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

References
References

Rushton. 1978. Palaeontology p.265 pl.25 figs 5, 6

Shergold, Laurie & Sun. 1990. Report Bureau Miner. Resour, Geol & Geophys. Australia p.296 fig.15 (2)

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