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Fossil specimen : SM A 18163 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order -

Fossil Name Glyptograptus dentatus (Brongniart)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Glyptograptus dentatus (Brongniart)

Diplograptus (Glyptograptus) dentatus var. Elles ex Tornquist ms.

Diplograptus appendiculatus [Elles ex] Tornquist ms.

Diplograptus appendiculatus Törnquist ms.: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 18163
Collector Marr, J.E.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
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

Bulman, O.M.B. 1963. Palaeontology vol. vi (4): p.673 (synonymy), p.675

Elles & Wood 1907. A monograph of British Graptolites Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.255 pl. xxxi fig.5

Elles, G.L. 1898. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. liv (1): p.518 text-fig.30

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