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The Ordovician trilobite fauna of the Great Paxton Borehole, Cambridgeshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. W. A. Rushton  and
C. P. Hughes
A. W. A. Rushton
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DE, U.K.
C. P. Hughes
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.
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Summary

The Ordovician trilobite fauna of the Great Paxton Borehole, Cambridgeshire, consists of twelve species including the seven new species; Segmentagnostus stubblefieldi, Trinucleus bicallis, Bergamia artemis, Protolloydolithus salax, Ogygiocaris macrops, Merlinia anxia and Bohemilla tridens. The fauna recalls that from the lower Llanvirn of the Shelve area, Shropshire, but the possibility of an upper Llanvirn age remains.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 118 , Issue 6 , November 1981 , pp. 623 - 646
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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