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Fossil specimen : SM A 34903 - A 34904 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Murchisoniina

Fossil Name Murchisonia gyrogonia McCoy
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Murchisonia gyrogonia McCoy: Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. A 34903 - A 34904
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 Llanfechan (W.), Montgomeryshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Bala
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
References

Donald, J. 1906. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxii (2): pp.557, 558

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 (1): pp.293, 365

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

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