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Description: | A poorly preserved cephalon from Acanthopyge hirsuta measuring (9mm x 6mm x 3mm) which is dark grey in colour. Preserved in a pale grey micrite matrix slab (19mm x 18mm x 12mm) there are many small unidentified brachiopods and crinoid stem segments. Part of the cephalon is obscured by matrix. This specimen was from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Nodular Member. Collected from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands. CB
Part of a fossilised head of an Acanthopyge hirsuta trilobite from the Wrens Nest, Dudley around 425 million years old. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Museums Service | Rights holder: | Dudley Museums Service | Subjects: | Steven Birch Collection Geology | Temporal: | Silurian - Wenlock | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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