GB3D Type Fossils

 Home   The project   Search  About fossils Contributors Downloads Links Contact us

Fossil specimen : SM A 31264 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Lingulata

      Order Acrotretida

Fossil Name Schizocrania turnbulli (Reed), 1905
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Schizocrania turnbulli (Reed), 1905

Crania turnbulli Reed: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 31264
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Turnbull, V.M.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments part and counterpart : (parts a-b)
Location
Country Wales
Locality Shoalshook Railway Cutting, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Sholeshook Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Rawtheyan Stage (Ordovician Period) – Cautleyan Stage (Ordovician Period) (445.2 – 448 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Katian Age ]

References
References

Cocks, L.R.M. 1978. A review of British Lower Palaeozoic Brachiopods, including a synoptic revision of Davidson's monograph Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.26

Reed, F.R.C. 1905. Geological Magazine dec. v, vol ii (1): pp.445, 447 pl. xxiii fig.2 (a.31, 264a),fig.2 a (a.31, 264b)

Available Images


View these images in your web browser using our JPEG2000 viewer. Zoom in and out and pan around in high resolution. Requires JavaScript to be enabled.

Download these images as high resolution JPEG2000 files. You may need to use image-editing software to view these files.



click image or here to close