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Fossil specimen : SM A 17919 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order Graptoloidea

Fossil Name Dichograptidae
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Dichograptidae

Didymograptus latus Salter: Syntype

Graptolites latus McCoy

Graptolites latus McCoy: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 17919
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 England
Locality Knockmurton, Lamplugh Cross, Cumberland, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Skiddaw Slate
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) – Arenig Series (Ordovician Period) (460.5 – 477.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age – Early Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

McCoy 1848 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. iv (1): p.223

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (2): p.4

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.20

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