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Fossil specimen : SM A 21479 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order -

Fossil Name Monograptus triangulatus var. similis (Elles & Wood)
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Monograptus triangulatus var. similis (Elles & Wood)

Monograptus triangulatus var. similis (Elles & Wood)

Monograptus separatus var. similis (Elles & Wood): Lectotype

Monograptus fimbriatus var. similis Elles & Wood: Syntype

Monograptus fimbriatus (Nicholson)

Provenance
Registration No. A 21479
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Lapworth, C.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Dobb's Linn, Dumfriesshire?
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Birkhill Shale
Biozone M. gregarius (peculiar)
Geological Age

Telychian Age (Silurian Period) – Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) (433.4 – 449 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Elles & Wood 1913. A monograph of British Graptolites Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.483 text-fig.339

Rickards, R.B., Hutt & Berry, W.B.N. 1977. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 28 (5): p.47 fig.20a

Sudbury, M. 1958. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) vol. 241 (3): p.501 text-fig.4 (pars) 14 (pars) 7

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