GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS By8993 – Undifferentiated Type

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida
Fossil Name Ogygiocaris macrops Rushton & Hughes
Type Status Undifferentiated Type
Name History

Ogygiocaris macrops Rushton & Hughes
Provenance
Registration No. By8993
Collector Survey 1966
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Great Paxton BH
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llanvirn Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) (460.5 – 465.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Rushton & Hughes 1981 Geol Mag Vol 118 pl.4 fig 11
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