GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Porifera

    Class -

      Order -

Dictyophyton danbyi (McCoy)

Dictyophyton danbyi (McCoy)

Tetragonis danbyi McCoy

Tetragonis danbyi McCoy: Syntype

Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.)

Hinde 1883. Catalogue of fossil sponges in the Geological department of the British Museum Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology (3): p.131

Hinde. A monograph of the British fossil sponges Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): p.128 (1888) pl. ii figs. 4 a, c (1887)

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (1): p.62 pl.1 d figs.7, 7 a

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (2): p.176

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 (5): p.7