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Fossil specimen : OUM E.00306 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Plantae

  Phylum Lycophyta

    Class Lycopsida

      Order Lepidodendrales

Fossil Name Favularia nodosa Lindley & Hutton, 1837
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Favularia nodosa Lindley & Hutton, 1837 – See Kidston (1891): Holotype

Favularia nodosa Lindley & Hutton, 1837 – See Morris (1843): Holotype

Favularia nodosa Lindley & Hutton, 1837 – See Lindley & Hutton (1837): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. E.00306
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Bowman, J.E.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Kidston, 1891, states that specimen is lost, but this is not the case
Location
Country Wales
Locality Flint Marsh Colliery, Dee Estuary, Denbighshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Supergroup
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (308 – 319 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

KIDSTON, R. 1891. Notes on Palaeozoic species mentioned in Lindley & Hutton's "Fossil Flora". Proc. R. phys. Soc. Edinb., X, (for 1888-90), 345-391. p. 377

LINDLEY, J. and HUTTON, W. 1837. The Fossil Flora of Great Britain; or figures and descriptions of the vegetable remains found in a fossil state in this country, part III. Ridgeway, London. p. 107; pl. 192

MORRIS, J. 1843. A catalogue of British Fossils . . . J. Van Voorst, London, x + 222 pp. p. 9

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