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Fossil specimen : SM A 2401 a-b – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Rugosa

Fossil Name Lithostrotion minus McCoy
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Lithostrotion minus McCoy

Lithostrotion minus (McCoy)

Lithostrotion basaltiforme (Conybeare & Phillips)

Lithostrotion basaltiforme (Conybeare & Phillips)

Lithostrotion basaltiforme (Conybeare & Phillips)

Nematophyllum minus McCoy

Nemaphyllum minus McCoy: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 2401 a-b
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Kendal, Westmorland, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Limestone
Biozone S2
Geological Age

Visean Stage (Carboniferous Period) – Tournaisian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 358.9 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Edwards, H. Milne & Haime 1851. Archives du Museum national d'histoire naturelle vol. v (3): pp.441-2

Edwards, H. Milne & Haime 1852. A monograph of the British fossil corals Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): pp.190-1

Garwood 1913 for 1912. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxviii, pp. 449-582 (5): p.563

Hudson 1930. Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (sci. sect.) ii 2 (6): p.101 pl. i fig.3 = a.2,401 c

McCoy 1849 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 vol. iii (1): p.17

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.99 pl.3 b fig.3 = a.2,401 b; fig.3 a = a.2,401 a; fig.3 b = ?

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): pp.85-6

Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 (4): p.21

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