Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Echinodermata Class Ophiuroidea Order Oegophiurida |
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Fossil Name | Urosoma hirudo (Forbes) |
Type Status | Holotype |
Name History | Urosoma hirudo (Forbes) Paleaster hirudo (Forbes) Uraster hirudo Forbes Uraster hirudo Forbes: Holotype |
Registration No. | A 5523 - A 5524 |
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Collector | Name not available |
Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
Held By | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge |
Comments | slab with many specimens |
Country | England |
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Locality | Pottersfell, Potter Fell, Kendal, Westmorland, England |
Grid Reference | Not available |
Rock Unit | Bannisdale Slate |
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Biozone | Not available |
Geological Age |
Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.) |
References | Forbes 1849. Figures and Descriptions illustrative of British organic remains Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales dec. i (1): p.3 pl. i, fig.4? McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.59 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.163 Spencer 1930. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa Palaeontographical Society Monographs (5): p.434 Spencer 1930. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.434 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.35 |
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