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Fossil specimen : OUM C.00048 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Ophiocistioidea

      Order -

Fossil Name Euthemon igerna Sollas, 1899
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Euthemon igerna Sollas, 1899 – See Ubaghs (1966): Holotype

Euthemon igerna Sollas, 1899 – See Fedotov (1926): Holotype

Euthemon igerna Sollas, 1899 – See Sollas (1899): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. C.00048
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person ? Grindrod, R.B. 1882 – 1883
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Croft Farm, west side of Malvern Hills, Worcestershire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Much Wenlock Limestone Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Homerian Age (Silurian Period) (427.4 – 430.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

FEDOTOV, D.M. 1926. The plan of structure and systematic status of the Ophiocistia (Echinoderma). Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1147-1157, pls I, II. pp. 1155 - 1157; pl. II, fig. 2

SOLLAS, W.J. 1899. Fossils in the University Museum, Oxford : I. On Silurian Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., LV, 692-715. pp. 696, 698; figs 3, 4

UBAGHS, G. 1966. Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology (ed. R.C. Moore), part U, Echinodermata 3, 1, U1-U366a. p. U176; (latex peel) fig. 133

Available Images

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