GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM8946 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Ptychopariida
Fossil Name Olenus cataractes Salter
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Olenus cataractes Salter
Provenance
Registration No. GSM8946
Collector Survey (J.W.Salter) 1859
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Treflys
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lingula Flags
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Merioneth Series (Cambrian Period) – St David's Series (Cambrian Period) (485.4 – 508 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Furongian Epoch – Cambrian Series 3 ]

References
References

?Salter. 1864. Mem. Geol. Surv p.1-2 pl. 8 fig. 14

?Salter. 1866. Mem. Geol. Surv p.300-301 pl. 5 fig. 23

Lake. 1908. British Cambrian Trilobites. Mon. Palaeont. Soc p.56 pl. 5 figs. 13

Rushton. 1983. Trilobites and other early arthropods. Spec. Pap. Pal. 30 pl. 18 fig. 2
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