Fossil specimen : SM A 34896 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Gastropoda Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Lophospira gyrogonia (McCoy) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Lophospira gyrogonia (McCoy) Murchisonia gyrogonia McCoy Murchisonia gyrogonia McCoy Murchisonia gyrogonia McCoy: Holotype Murchisonia gyrogonia McCoy |
| Registration No. | A 34896 |
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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 | Wales |
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| Locality | Ysputty Evan, Denbighshire, Wales |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Schists (fine and sandy) |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) – Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 458.4 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ] |
| References | Donald, J. 1906. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxii (5): p.557 pl. xliii fig.3 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.293, 374 pl. ik figs.43, 43 a McCoy 1852 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. x (1): p.192 McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.243 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.69 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.107 |
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