GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM92971 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida
Fossil Name Stapeleyella inconstans Whittard
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Stapeleyella inconstans Whittard
Provenance
Registration No. GSM92971
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person WF Whittard 1956
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Brithdir path, Old Church, Stoke
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Hope Shale Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Hughes, Ingham & Addison, 1975, Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc. B no.920 pl. 2 fig 29

Whittard, WF, 1955, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire" p.39 pl 4 fig 7
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