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Fossil specimen : OUM C.00227a, b – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Discosorida

Fossil Name Phragmoceras arcuatum J. de C. Sowerby, 1839
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Phragmoceras arcuatum J. de C. Sowerby, 1839 – See Holland & Stridsberg (2004): Lectotype

Phragmoceras arcuatum J. de C. Sowerby, 1839 – See Blake (1882): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. C.00227a, b
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 Specimen in 2 pieces
Location
Country England
Locality Ledbury, Herefordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Unknown
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Gorstian Age (Silurian Period) (425.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

BLAKE, J.F. 1882. A Monograph of British Fossil Cephalopoda, part 1, introduction and Silurian species. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-248, pls I-XXXI. pp. 204 - 206; pl. XXVI, figs 2, 2 a

HOLLAND, C. and STRIDSBERG, S. 2004. Specific representation of the Silurian cephalopod genus Phragmoceras in Gotland and Britian. GFF, 26, 301-310 pp. 303 - 305; (C.227a) fig. 1 A, (C.227a, b) fig. 1 C

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