Fossil specimen : SM A 16672 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Brachiopoda Class Strophomenata Order Strophomenida |
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| Fossil Name | Leangella (Leptestiina) derfelensis derfelensis (Jones), (1928) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Leangella (Leptestiina) derfelensis derfelensis (Jones), (1928) Leptestiina derfelensis (Jones O.T.), 1928 Leptellina derfelensis (Jones O.T.) Leptelloidea derfelensis Jones: Holotype |
| Registration No. | A 16672 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Elles, Gertrude Lilian (1872-1960) |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | Wales |
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| Locality | Derfel gorge, Arening, Wales |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Dicranograptus Shale (base) |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (449 – 458.4 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ] |
| References | Cocks, L.R.M. 1978. A review of British Lower Palaeozoic Brachiopods, including a synoptic revision of Davidson's monograph Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.94 Cocks, L.R.M. 2010. Palaeontology vol. 53, part 5, pp. 1155-1200 Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderlands fig.8 (right), plate 7, p.1183; p.1185 Jones, O.T. 1928. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales (Palaeontology) vol. i part 5 (1): p.479 pl. xxv fig. 4 (upper specimen). Fig. 3 is said to be the holotype. |
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