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Fossil specimen : SM A 6953 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Acanthodii

      Order -

Fossil Name Acanthodii
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Acanthodii

Steganodictyum cornubicum McCoy

Scaphaspis cornubicus (McCoy)

Steganodictyum cornubicum McCoy: Syntype

Steganodictyum cornubicum McCoy

Provenance
Registration No. A 6953
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 Lantic Bay, Lantwit Bay, Polperro, Cornwall, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Black Devonian Shale
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Devonian Period (Devonian Period) (358.9 – 419.2 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Hinde 1888. A monograph of the British fossil sponges Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. i (5): p.182

Lankester, Ray 1868. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxiv (3): p.546

McCoy 1851 c. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. viii (1): p.482

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.233

McCoy 1855 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Geol. Mus. Cambridge (2): pl. iia fig.2

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.167

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