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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM86779 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida

Fossil Name Marrolithus bilinearis Whittard
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Marrolithus bilinearis Whittard

Provenance
Registration No. GSM86779
Collector Prof. WF Whittard 1957
Donor or Associated Person Prof. WF Whittard 1957
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Specimen with latex cast
Location
Country England
Locality Rorrington
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Spy Wood Sandstone Formation
Biozone peltifer
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.61-62 VIII,fig10

Available Images

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