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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM37589 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Aegiria garthensis (Jones)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Aegiria garthensis (Jones)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM37589
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Andrew, G 1925
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Garth
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Llandovery Epoch (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Cocks, LRM. 1970. Silurian Brachiopods of the superfamily Plectambonitacae. Bulletin of the BM(NH) Pl. 17, figs. 5 & 6

Jones, OT. 1928. Mem. Geol. Surv. Pal p.500-501 Pl. 25, fig. 25

Opik. 1933. Act. Comm. Univ. Tartu (Dorpat) p.55

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P816118.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P816689.JP2

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