page_title: Homerian
section_title: Arthropods
hierarchical_section_title: Homerian / Palaeontology / Arthropods
caption_attribution_description: English: Neotype (BU55) of the encrinurine trilobite Balizoma variolaris (Brongniart, 1822); Wenlock Series; Much Wenlock Limestone Formation; Dudley, West Midlands, UK
context_page_description: In the geologic timescale, the Homerian is the age of the Wenlock epoch of the Silurian period of the Paleozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon that is comprehended between 430.5 ± 0.7 Ma and 427.4 ± 0.5 Ma, approximately. The Homerian age succeeds the Sheinwoodian age and precedes the Gorstian age.
  The name comes from the small village of Homer, Shropshire near Much Wenlock.
caption: Balizoma variolaris
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