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Balizoma variolaris (BRONGNIART, 1822)

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Here is a beautiful and rare member of the family Encrinuridae from Dudley. The species B. variolaris is the type species for the genus Balizoma that was established by Holloway in 1980. Finds like this make the locality of Wrens Nest world famous. Today the collecting is restricted. Because the Wrens Nest Site is today a national park and of course a SSSI, a site of special scientific interest. In fact it is UKs first geological related national park that was established. So no new finds will come from this place. The famous palaeontologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison intensively researched this site. A lot of his results for his most famous book The Silurian System that he published in the year 1839 where found in Wrens Nest. HOLLOWAY, D.J. 1980. Middle Silurian trilobites from Arkansas and Oklahoma, U.S.A. Part 1. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 170: 1-85.

	Location:	Wrens Nest, Dudley, Worcestershire, UK
	Size trilobite:	about 12 mm long
	Age:	Silurian , Wenlock, Coalbrookdale Fm (about. 428 Mill. y.o.)

Product no.: 1608