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Fossil specimen : OUM E.00426 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Nautilida

Fossil Name Discites omalianus de Konink, 1851
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Discites omalianus de Konink, 1851 – See Foord (1891)

Nautilus tetragonus Phillips, 1836 – See Phillips (1836): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. E.00426
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Phillips, J.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Kulkeagh, County Fermanagh
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Mississippian Subperiod (Carboniferous Period) (323.2 – 358.9 Ma B.P.)

References
References

FOORD, A.H. 1891. Catalogue of the fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), part II - Nautiloidea. printed by order of the Trustees, London, 407 pp. p. 87

PHILLIPS, J. 1836. Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire, or a description of the Strata and organic remains, part II - The Mountain Limestone district. John Murray, London, 253 pp., pls I-XXV. p. 233; pl. XXII, figs 33, 34

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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