Fossil specimen : SM A 5697 – Lectotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Brachiopoda Class Rhynchonellata Order Rhynchonellida |
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| Fossil Name | Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni (Sowerby J.), 1816 |
| Type Status | Lectotype |
| Name History | Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni (Sowerby J.), 1816 Hemithyris sphaeroidalis McCoy: Lectotype Wilsonia wilsoni (Sowerby J.) Rhynchonella wilsoni var. sphaeroidalis McCoy Rhynchonella wilsoni var. sphaeroidalis McCoy Hemithyris sphaeroidalis McCoy: Holotype |
| Registration No. | A 5697 |
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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
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Botvylle, Church Stretton, Hollies, Shropshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Aymestry Limestone |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Gorstian Age (Silurian Period) (425.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Cocks, L.R.M. 1978. A review of British Lower Palaeozoic Brachiopods, including a synoptic revision of Davidson's monograph Palaeontographical Society Monographs (6): pp.153,185 Cocks, L.R.M. 1978. A review of British Lower Palaeozoic Brachiopods, including a synoptic revision of Davidson's monograph Palaeontographical Society Monographs (5): pp.153,185 Davidson 1869 d. British fossil Brachiopoda Palaeontographical Society Monographs iii part vii (2): p.173 pl. xxiii figs.10, 10 a, 10 bspecies mentioned and McCoy's figures copied 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 (1): p.206 pl.1 l figs.4, 4 a, 4 b? 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.61 |
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