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Fossil specimen : BGS By1934a – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida
Fossil Name Orometopus aridos Rushton
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Orometopus aridos Rushton
Provenance
Registration No. By1934a
Collector BGS
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments By1934a is the counterpart of By1932a
Location
Country England
Locality Deanshanger BH T10, Towcester, Northants
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Tremadoc Beds
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Tremadoc Series (Ordovician Period) (477.7 – 485.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Tremadocian Age ]

References
References

Bulman and Rushton. 1973. Bull Geol Surv GB 6 8

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