Fossil specimen : SM A 34844 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Gastropoda Order Archaeogastropoda |
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| Fossil Name | Trochus moorei McCoy |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Trochus moorei McCoy Trochus moorei McCoy Trochus moorei McCoy: Holotype Trochus moorei McCoy |
| Registration No. | A 34844 |
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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 | Scotland |
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| Locality | Mulloch Quarry, Dalquorhan, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | May Hill Bed |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Telychian Age (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 438.5 Ma B.P.) |
| References | McCoy 1851 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. vii (1): p.50 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): pp.297, 368 pl. il figs.18, 18 a McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.185 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.82 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 (4): p.116 |
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