GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BRSUG 26361 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Ptychopariida
Fossil Name Parabolinella bolbifrons Fortey and Owens
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Parabolinella bolbifrons Fortey and Owens
Provenance
Registration No. 26361
Collector Curtis, M.L.K. 1968
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By University of Bristol Geology Collection
Comments Part and counterpart of "bubble-headed" trilobite
Location
Country England
Locality Temporary trench 192m W 32 deg. S of Crawless Old Barn, SSW of Breadstone, Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Tremadoc, Breadstone Shales
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Tremadocian Age ]

References
References

Fortey, R. and Owens, R.M. 1997. Bubble-headed trilobites and a new olenid example. Palaeontology v. 40 pp.451-459

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