Fossil specimen : SM A 17917 – Syntype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Hemichordata Class Graptolithina Order Graptoloidea |
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| Fossil Name | Dichograptidae |
| Type Status | Syntype |
| Name History | Dichograptidae Didymograptus latus Salter Dichograptidae Didymograptus latus Salter: Syntype Graptolites latus McCoy Graptolites latus McCoy: Syntype |
| Registration No. | A 17917 |
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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 | part and counterpart : (parts a-b) |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Knockmurton, Lamplugh Cross, Cumberland, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Skiddaw Slate |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) – Arenig Series (Ordovician Period) (460.5 – 477.7 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age – Early Ordovician Epoch ] |
| References | Elles & Wood 1902. A monograph of British Graptolites Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. 100 (6): pl. x fig.2 (pars) McCoy 1848 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. iv (1): p.223 woodcut McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.4 Nicholson 1868. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxiv (4): p.141 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.20 Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 (5): p.11 |
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