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Fossil specimen : SM A 16587 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Chonetes ceratoides Reed, 1917
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Chonetes ceratoides Reed, 1917: Lectotype

Protochonetes minimus (Sowerby, J. de C.), 1839

Protochonetes ceratoides (Reed)

Chonetes ceratoides Reed, 1917: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 16587
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Gardiner, Charles Irving (1868-1940)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Usk Inlier, Monmouthshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Ludlow Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Bassett 1977. The articulate brachiopods from the Wenlock Series of the Welsh Borderland and South Wales Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.162 pl.43 fig.9

Muir-Wood, H.M. 1962. On the morphology and classification of the Brachiopod suborder Chonetoidea Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 35 (2): p.50

Reed, F.R.C. 1917 b. Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club vol. xix for 1916 (1): p.160 pl. viii fig.1

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