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Fossil specimen : OUM A.00041 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Obolellata

      Order Obolellida

Fossil Name ?Obolella groomii Matley, 1902
Type Status Paratype
Name History

?Obolella groomii Matley, 1902 – See Cobbold (1921): Paratype

?Obolella groomii Matley, 1902 – See Matley (1902): Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. A.00041
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Groom, T.T.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments In same wooden slide as A.42-A.44
Location
Country England
Locality Western slopes of Raggedstone Hill, Malvern, Herefordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Malvern Quartzite Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Comley Series (Cambrian Period) (508 – 526 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Cambrian Series 2 – Terreneuvian Epoch ]

References
References

COBBOLD, E.S.1921. The Cambrian horizons of Comley (Shropshire) and their Brachiopoda, Pteropoda, Gasteropoda, etc. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., LXXVI (4), 325-. p. 345

MATLEY, C.A. 1902. On the Cambrian Brachiopoda of the Malvern Hills, Appendix to GROOM, T.T. 1902. The sequence of the Cambrian and associated beds of the Malvern Hills. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., LVIII, 89-149. pp. 94, 137; text-fig. 2

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