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Description: | Specimen of a fossil brachiopod (lamp shell), Orthis redux, collected from the Budleigh Salterton Pebble Bed of Triassic, Bunter age from Buddleigh Salterton, Devon (SW England). Fossil is part of a pebble derived from older rocks of Silurian age. Collected by the Rev. P.B. Brodie.
Orthis redux is a brachiopod (lamp shell) from rocks of Silurian age, approximately 440 to 420 million years old. The Budleigh Salterton Pebble Bed is Triassic, and approximately 240 million years old. The Orthis fossils, in a piece of Silurian rock, have been incorporated in a pebbly conglomerate (coarse sandstone) during the Triassic. The orthis fossils are much older than the Triassic conglomerate that they were found in.
The specimen was found in Devon.
It is from the Triassic period (248 - 206 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Animalia Brodie Brachiopoda Invertebrata Articulata Rev P.B. | Temporal: | Triassic period (248 - 206 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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