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Fossil specimen : SM A 17690 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order Graptoloidea

Fossil Name Didymograptus nicholsoni var. planus Elles & Wood
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Didymograptus nicholsoni var. planus Elles & Wood: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 17690
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Nicholson, Henry Alleyne (1844-1899)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Outerside, Keswick, Cumberland, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Skiddaw Slate
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Llanvirn Series (Ordovician Period) – Tremadoc Series (Ordovician Period) (458.4 – 485.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Mid Ordovician Epoch – Tremadocian Age ]

References
References

Elles & Wood 1901. A monograph of British Graptolites Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1): p.29 text-fig.17 a and pl. ii fig.5 a

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