GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM87158 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Asaphida
Fossil Name Microparia shelvensis Whittard
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Microparia shelvensis Whittard
Provenance
Registration No. GSM87158
Collector Whittard 1961
Donor or Associated Person Whittard 1961
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Nind Quarry, Linley, Salop
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llanvirn Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone bifidus
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Whittard, WF, 1961, Pal. Soc. Mon. "Ordovician Trilobites of the Shelve Inlier W Shropshire, pt. VI" p.178 XXIV, fig. 3
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