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Fossil specimen : SM A 16749 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Modiolopsis homfrayi Hicks
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Modiolopsis homfrayi Hicks

Modiolopsis homfrayi Hicks: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 16749
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Hicks, Henry (1837-1899)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Arenig Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Tremadoc Series (Ordovician Period) (477.7 – 485.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Tremadocian Age ]

References
References

Hicks 1873 a. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxix (1): p.49 pl. v fig.16

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 (2): p.81

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