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Fossil specimen : SM A 30044 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Strophomenata

      Order Strophomenida

Fossil Name Leptostrophia tenuis Williams
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Leptostrophia tenuis Williams

Leptostrophia tenuis Williams: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 30044
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Jones, O.T.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Sefin footbridge, Lletty'rhyddod, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Shale Band
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Llandovery Epoch (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Cocks, L.R.M. 1967. Palaeontology vol. x (2): p.252 pl.37 fig.9

Williams, Alwyn 1951. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. cvii (1): p.126 text-fig.16 b pl. viii fig.8

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