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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM93017 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Marrolithus arenarius Whittard
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Marrolithus arenarius Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM93017
Collector Prof. WF Whittard 1957
Donor or Associated Person Prof. WF Whittard 1957
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Hagley, Shropshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (449 – 458.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Whittard, WF, 1956, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire" p.60-61 VIII, fig. 5

Available Images

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