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Fossil specimen : SM A 11307 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Strophomenata

      Order Strophomenida

Fossil Name Ygerodiscus undulatus (Salter), 1848
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Ygerodiscus undulatus (Salter), 1848: Lectotype

Ygerodiscus undulatus (Salter), 1848: Lectotype

Sowerbyella undulata (Salter)

Leptaena quinquecostata McCoy

Leptaena transversalis var. undulata Salter

Leptaena transversalis var. undulata Salter

Leptaena quinquecostata (McCoy)

Provenance
Registration No. A 11307
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 Wales
Locality Banwy River (at or near bank), Mathyrafal, Meifod (2 miles S.W.), Montgomeryshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit May Hill Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Rhuddanian Age (Silurian Period) (440.8 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Cocks, L.R.M. 1970. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 19 (7): pp.186-7 pl.15 fig.5

Cocks, L.R.M. 1970. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 19 (6): pp. 186-7 pl. 15 fig. 5

Jones, O.T. 1928. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales (Palaeontology) vol. i part 5 (5): pp. 452, 465 pl. xxiv fig. 3

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 (1): p.236 pl. ih fig. 30

Ramsay 1866 b. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales vol. iii (1st edition) (2): p.267

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.82 Salter's no. a 198

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.53

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