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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE2619 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order -

Fossil Name Torquigraptus urceolinus (Stein 1965)
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Torquigraptus urceolinus (Stein 1965)

Monograptus urceolus (Richter)

Provenance
Registration No. GSE2619
Collector British Geological Survey Museum Collection
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Birkhill Shales - Silurian. 1" 10.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Broadshaw Burn - Lochmaben - Dumfries.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Birkhill Shale Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Telychian Age (Silurian Period) – Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) (433.4 – 449 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Elles & Wood, 1913. British Graptolites, Mon. Pal. Soc p.470 pl48.,fig1a Fig 326a

[See Zalasiewicz 1996]

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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