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Acanthopyge hirsuta (FLETCHER, 1850)

Acanthopyge hirsuta (FLETCHER, 1850)
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Acanthopyge hirsuta (FLETCHER, 1850)

Products description

A very rare double from the classical localety of Dudley. The locality is closed today so that it is not possibile to find any more of this.

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.

 
 

Location:

Wrens Nest, Dudley, Worcestershire, UK 
Size trilobite:about 22 mm long
Age:Silurian , Wenlock, Coalbrookdale Fm (about. 428 Mill. y.o.)

Product no.: 815