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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE5842 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Crangopsis eskdalensis (Peach)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Crangopsis eskdalensis (Peach)

Provenance
Registration No. GSE5842
Collector No name given.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Calciferous Sandstone Series. 1" 11.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality River Esk - Glencartholm - Dumfries.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Strathclyde Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Brigantian Substage (Carboniferous Period) – Chadian Substage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 346.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Visean Age – Tournaisian Age ]

References
References

Peach BN 1881 Crustacea: Lower Carboniferous of Eskdale & Liddesdale - Trans Roy Soc Edinburgh Vol 30 Part 1 (as Palaeocrangon eskdalensis) plviii.,fig9h

Peach BN 1908 Higher Crustacea Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland: Mem Geol Survey plxi.,fig4

Available Images

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