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Fossil specimen : SM A 10961 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Trilobita

      Order Phacopida

Fossil Name Kloucekia apiculata (McCoy)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Kloucekia apiculata (McCoy)

Phacops (Acaste) apiculatus Salter

Phacops (Acaste) apiculatus Salter

Phacops (Phacops) apiculatus Salter

Phacops (Portlockia) apiculata [McCoy ex] Salter ms.: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 10961
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 part and counterpart : (parts a-b)
Location
Country Wales
Locality Pwllheli (S.W.), Caernarvonshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Pwllheli Mudstone (probably)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Cheneyan Stage (Ordovician Period) (451.5 – 452.75 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Katian Age ]

References
References

Harper 1947 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (11) vol. xiv (5): p.170

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (1): p.162 pl. 1 g fig. 17

McCoy 1852 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p. iii appendix a

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.52, b 196

Whittington, H.B. 1962. A monograph of the Ordovician Trilobites of the Bala area, Merioneth Palaeontographical Society Monographs (6): pp. 9, 11

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.149

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