Fossil specimen : SM A 30675 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Echinodermata Class Eocrinoidea Order Rhombifera |
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| Fossil Name | Heliocrinus davisii (McCoy) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Heliocrinus davisii (McCoy) Echinosphaerites davisii McCoy – See Salter & Ramsay (1881) Echinosphaerites (Caryocystites) davisii McCoy – See Salter (1873) Echinosphaerites davisii McCoy – See Salter & Ramsey (1866) Caryocystites davisii McCoy – See McCoy (1851a) Caryocystites davisii McCoy – See McCoy & Forbes: Holotype |
| Registration No. | A 30675 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Coniston, Lancashire (McCoy), Westmorland (Salter), England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Coniston Limestone |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 449 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ] |
| References | McCoy & Forbes. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales vol. ii part ii p.513 pl. xxi figs.5 a-b McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils p.61 Salter & Ramsay 1881. The geology of North Wales Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales 2nd edition p.478 pl. xx fig.9 Salter & Ramsey 1866. The geology of North Wales Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales vol. iii p.287 pl. xx fig.9 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge p.45, a.126 |
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