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Fossil specimen : SM A 16607 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order -

Fossil Name Rhizophyllum tortworthense Reed
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Rhizophyllum tortworthense Reed

Rhizophyllum tortworthense Reed: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 16607
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Reynolds, Sidney Hugh (1867-1947)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Middlemill, Tortworth, Gloucestershire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Llandovery
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Llandovery Epoch (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Curtis 1956. Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society vol. xxix (2) (2): p.148

Reed, F.R.C. 1924. Geological Magazine vol. lxi (1): p.29 pl. iii figs.7, 7 a-c

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