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Fossil specimen : OUM C.00245 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Basslerocerida

Fossil Name Uranoceras holtianus (Blake, 1882)
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Uranoceras holtianus (Blake, 1882) – See Holland (2010): Lectotype

Nautilus holtianus Blake, 1882 – See Blake (1882): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. C.00245
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 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. 211 - 212; pl. XXVIII, fig. 1

HOLLAND, C.H. 2010. Coiled nautiloid cephalopods from the British Silurian. Proc. Geol. Ass., 121, 13-23. pp. 21, 22; fig. 3 b

Available Images

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