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Fossil specimen : SM A 29991 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Platyschisma helicoides Salter
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Platyschisma helicoides Salter

Platyschisma helicoides Salter: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 29991
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 Lesmahgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Ludlow Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Reed, F.R.C. 1901 b. Geological Magazine n.s. dec. (iv) vol. viii (3): p.356

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (1): p.186

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 (2): p.111

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