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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE5969 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Aptychopsis lata Jones & Woodward
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Aptychopsis lata Jones & Woodward

Provenance
Registration No. GSE5969
Collector British Geological Survey Museum Collection
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Wenlock - Silurian. 1" 10.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Stream - Nether Stennies Water - Langholm - Dumfries.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Wenlock Epoch (Silurian Period) (427.4 – 433.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Jones TR & Woodward H 1892 Brit Palaeo Phyllopoda - Mon Pal Soc plxv.,fig6

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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