Fossil specimen : SM A 11319 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Bivalvia Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Pterinaea hians McCoy |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Pterinaea hians McCoy Pterinea retroflexa var. hians McCoy Pterinea hians McCoy: Holotype Pterinea hians McCoy |
| Registration No. | A 11319 |
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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 | Mortimer's Cross, Aymestry, Herefordshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Aymestry Limestone |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.) |
| References | McCoy 1851 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. vii (1): p.60 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.260 pl. ii figs.6, 6 a McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.195 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.169 Woods 1891 a. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.89 |
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