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Fossil specimen : SM A 20244 - A 20245 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order -

Fossil Name Climacograptus
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Climacograptus

Climacograptus scalaris (Linne)

Diplograpsus rectangularis McCoy

Diplograpsus rectangularis McCoy: Paratype

Diplograpsus rectangularis McCoy

Provenance
Registration No. A 20244 - A 20245
Collector Name not available
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 Scotland
Locality Moffat, Lockerby, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Birkhill Shale
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

McCoy 1850 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 vol. vi (1): p.271

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.8

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (3): p.155

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.28

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