GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM19194 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Phacopida
Fossil Name Phacops (Achatella) truncatocaudatus Portlock
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Phacops (Achatella) truncatocaudatus Portlock

Phacops truncatocaudatus Portlock
Provenance
Registration No. GSM19194
Collector Portlock
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Desertcreight,Tyrone,N. Ireland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (449 – 458.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Portlock,1843,Geol. Rep.Londonderry,etc.ibid.p.281 pl. II,fig. 2,3

Reed, 1952,proc. Roy. Irish Acad.,55,B,no.3,pg.121

Salter,1864,Mon. Brit Tril

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