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Fossil specimen : SM A 18491 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order -

Fossil Name Dicranograptus salopiensis Elles & Wood
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Dicranograptus salopiensis Elles & Wood

Dicellograptus divaricatus var. salopiensis Elles & Wood: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 18491
Collector Hughes, Thomas McKenny (1833-1917)
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 Spy Burn, Shropshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coenograptus Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) – Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) (449 – 465.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch – Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Elles & Wood 1904. A monograph of British Graptolites Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1): p.145 pl. xx fig.7 b

Hughes, R.A. 1988. Llandeilo and Caradoc graptolites of the Builth and Shelve Inliers Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): pp.43-45, text-fig.19f

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