GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Crinoidea

      Order -

Meristocrinus orbignyi (McCoy): Holotype

Meristocrinus orbignyi (McCoy): Syntype

Taxocrinus orbignii McCoy

Taxocrinus orbignyi (McCoy)

Taxocrinus orbignii McCoy: Holotype

Taxocrinus orbignii McCoy

Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.)

McCoy 1850 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 vol. vi (1): p.289

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.54 pl. id fig.1

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.176

Ramsbottom 1958. Palaeontology vol. i (6): p.107 pl.20 fig.7

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.163, a.518

Springer 1920 b. The Crinoidea flexibilia (5): p.213 pl. xvii fig.7

Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 (4): p.42