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Fossil specimen : OUM C.30556 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Pteraspidomorphi

      Order Eriptychiida

Fossil Name Kallostrakon podura Tarlo, 1964
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Kallostrakon podura Tarlo, 1964 – See Tarlo (1964): Holotype

Kallostrakon podura Tarlo, 1964 – See Lankester (1870): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. C.30556
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 Bush Pitch Railway Cutting, near 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. pp. 60 - 61; pl. XIII, fig. 20

TARLO, L.B. 1964. Psammosteiformes (Agnatha) - A review with descriptions of new material from the Lower Devonian of Poland, I. General part. Palaeont. Pol., 13, 135pp., pls I-XIV. pp. 69 - 72; pl. V, figs 2, 3

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