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Fossil specimen : SM A 4011 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Tabulata

Fossil Name Heliolites decipiens (McCoy)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Heliolites decipiens (McCoy)

Fistulipora decipiens McCoy: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 4011
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 Aymestry, Herefordshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Wenlock Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Wenlock Epoch (Silurian Period) (427.4 – 433.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Edwards & Haime 1854. A monograph of the British fossil corals Palaeontographical Society Monographs part 5 (3): p.298

Lindstrom 1899 b. Kungliga Svenska vetenskkapsakademiens handlingar vol. xxiii no. 1 (errorr - maybe xxxiii ??) (4): p.48 pl. ii figs. 21-2

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.10 pl. i c figs. 1, 1 b

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