Fossil specimen : SM A 11330 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order Orthocerida |
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| Fossil Name | Orthoceras barrandei Salter |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Orthoceras barrandei Salter Orthoceras barrandei Salter Phragmacoceras (Gomphoceras) liratum Salter: Holotype |
| Registration No. | A 11330 |
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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 | Garden Quarry, Aymestry, Herefordshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Lower Ludlow Group |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Blake, J.F. 1882. A monograph of the British fossil Cephalopoda vol. i Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.79 pl. xviii fig.10 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (1): p.174 woodcut Woods 1891 a. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.128 |
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