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  • Chotecops ferdinandi (Kayser, 1880)

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    Taxonomy

    Chotecops ferdinandi

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Trilobita
    Order: Phacopida
    Family: Phacopidae
    Genus: Chotecops
    Species: Chotecops fernandi
    Author Citation (Kayser, 1880)

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Paleozoic
    Period: Devonian
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Early
    International Age: Early Emsian

    Stratigraphy

    Hunsrück Slate Group
    Kaub Formation

    Biostratigraphy

    Bundenbach Fossil Biota

    Provenance

    Collector: T. Bastelberger
    Date Collected: 07/01/1974
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Location

    Bundenbach, heap pile "Grube Herrenberg"
    Rhineland-Palatinate
    Germany

    Comments

    Chotecops is the most abundant trilobite in the Hunsrück Slate and due to the excellent preservation, often soft tissue such as antennae and legs have been preserved as a thin sheet of pyrite.

     

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    Tidgy's Dad

    Tidgy's Dad

    Posted

    Nice. 

    Brings back memories of when I bought one of these myself when It was still under the genus "Phacops". (or mine was) 

    Bought it in the fossil shop at Lyme Regis.  

    Oh, happy days. :)

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