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Fossil specimen : SM A 4050 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Favositida

Fossil Name Favosites gothlandicus var. forbesi Edwards & Haime
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Favosites gothlandicus var. forbesi Edwards & Haime

Favosites gothlandicus var. forbesi Edwards & Haime

Favosites forbesii Edwards & Haime

Favosites forbesii Milne Edwards

Favosites forbesi Edwards & Haime: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 4050
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Fletcher Coll.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Dudley, Worcestershire, 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 (1): p.258 pl. 60 figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b

Jones, O.A. 1936. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (10), vol. xvii (5): pp. 11-12

Salter. A monograph of the British trilobites from the Cambrian, Silurian and Devonian formations (2): p.105

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 (3): p.18

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