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Fossil specimen : NMW 27.177.G35 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Insecta

      Order Blattodea

Fossil Name Soomylacris northi Bolton, 1930
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Soomylacris northi Bolton, 1930 – See Bolton (1930): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. 27.177.G35
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Davies, D.
Held By Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Logo Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Mountain Colliery, Gorseinon, Swansea
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Swansea Five Feet Seam
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Substage D (Carboniferous Period) (307 – 309 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age ]

References
References

Bolton, H. 1930. Fossil insects of the South Wales Coalfield. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 86, 9-49. p.23, text-fig.6, pl.3, fig.4.

Available Images

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