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Fossil specimen : OUM C.30490 – Paralectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Osteostraci

      Order Thyestiida

Fossil Name Thyestes egertoni (Lankester, 1870)
Type Status Paralectotype
Name History

Thyestes egertoni (Lankester, 1870) – See Stensiö (1932): Paralectotype

Auchenaspis egertoni Lankester, 1870 – See Lankester (1870): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. C.30490
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 Cutting, Ledbury, Herefordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Ledbury Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Pridoli Epoch (Silurian Period) (419.2 – 423.6 Ma B.P.)

References
References

LANKESTER, E.R. 1870. A Monograph of the fishes of the Old Red Sandstone of Britain, Part I (2) - The Cephalaspidae. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 33-62, pls VI-XIV. p. 57; pl. XIII, fig. 5

STENSIÖ, E.A. 1932. The Cephalaspids of Great Britain. Bull. Brit. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geology), 220 pp., 66 pls. p. 167

Available Images

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