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Fossil specimen : SM A 28802 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Archaeogastropoda

Fossil Name Trochus caelatulus McCoy
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Trochus caelatulus McCoy

Trochus caelatulus McCoy

Trochus caelatulus McCoy: Holotype

Trochus caelatulus McCoy

Provenance
Registration No. A 28802
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 Wales
Locality Old Radnor Road, Presteign, Radnorshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Woolhope Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Sheinwoodian Age (Silurian Period) (430.5 – 433.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

McCoy 1851 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. vii (1): p.49

McCoy 1852 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.296 pl. ik fig. s 40,40 a

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.184

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.97

Woods 1891 a. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.116

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