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Fossil specimen : SM A 28829 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Strophomenata

      Order Strophomenida

Fossil Name Eostropheodonta hirnantensis (McCoy), 1851
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Eostropheodonta hirnantensis (McCoy), 1851

Stropheodonta (Eostropheodonta) hirnantensis (McCoy)

Orthis hirnantensis McCoy

Orthis hirnantensis McCoy

Orthis hirnantensis McCoy

Orthis hirnantensis McCoy: Syntype

Orthis hirnantensis McCoy

Provenance
Registration No. A 28829
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 Aber Hirnant, Maer Hir, Maes-Hir, Bala (E.), Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Hirnant Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 449 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Davidson 1869 d. British fossil Brachiopoda Palaeontographical Society Monographs iii part vii (3): p.261 pl. xxxii figs.5, 5 a

McCoy 1851 c. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. viii (1): p.395

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.219 pl. ih figs.11 (a.28, 829a), 11 a (a.28, 829b)

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.217

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.81

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

Williams, Alwyn 1951. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. cvii (6): p.123

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 (5): p.56

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