Fossil specimen : OUM C.00052a-h – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Echinodermata Class Echinoidea Order Echinocystitoidea |
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| Fossil Name | Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 – See Lister & Downie (1967): Holotype Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 – See Kier (1966): Holotype Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 – See Durham & Melville (1957): Holotype Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 – See Mortensen (1940): Holotype Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 – See MacBride & Spencer (1939): Holotype Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 – See Bather & Spencer (1934): Holotype Myriastiches gigas Sollas, 1899 – See Sollas (1899): Holotype |
| Registration No. | C.00052a-h |
|---|---|
| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Grindrod, R.B. 1882 – 1883 |
| Held By |
 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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| Comments | Slab sawn into 4 pieces, 3 of which remain; microfossils from matrix deposited in Department of Geology, University of Sheffield, c. 1967. ? Lower Ludlow |
| Country | Not Entered |
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| Locality | Unknown |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Unknown |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.) |
| References | BATHER, F.A. and SPENCER, W.K. 1934. A new Ordovician Echinoid from Girvan, Ayrshire. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., series 10, 13, 557-558. p. 558 DURHAM, J.W. & MELVILLE, R.V. 1957. A classification of Echinoids. J. Paleont., 31, 242-272. p. 243 KIER, P.M. 1966. Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology (ed. R.C. Moore), (U) Echinodermata 3 (1). Geol. Soc. America, Univ. Kansas Press, U1-U366a. p. U307 LISTER, T.R. & DOWNIE, C. 1967. New evidence for the age of the primitive echinoid Myriastiches gigas. Palaeontology, 10 (2),171-174. pp. 171 - 174 MORTENSEN, T. 1940. A Monograph of the Echinoidea, III, 1, Aulodonta, with additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroidea and Stirodonta). 370pp., 197 text-figs, 77 pls. pp. 349, 350; fig. 182 MacBRIDE, E.W. and SPENCER, W.K. 1938. Two new Echinoidea, Aulechinus and Ectinechinus, and an adult plated holothurian, Eothuria, from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, Scotland. Phil. Trans. R. Soc.,Lond., series B, 229, 91-136, pls. 10-17. p. 92; pl. 14, fig. 6 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. 700, 701; fig. 5 |
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