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Fossil specimen : SM A 34829 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Arjamannia cancellatula (M'Coy in Sedgwick & M'Coy), 1852
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Arjamannia cancellatula (M'Coy in Sedgwick & M'Coy), 1852: Holotype

Lophospira cancellatula (McCoy): Holotype

Murchisonia cancellatula McCoy

Murchisonia cancellatula McCoy

Murchisonia cancellatula McCoy: Holotype

Murchisonia cancellatula McCoy

Provenance
Registration No. A 34829
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 Scotland
Locality Mullock Quarry (Mulloch Quarry, Woods 1891), Dalquorhan, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Mulloch Hill Sandstone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Rhuddanian Age (Silurian Period) (440.8 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Longstaff 1924. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxxx (5): p.419

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.292, 368 pl. il figs.20, 20 a

McCoy 1852 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. x (1): p.191

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.243

Peel 1975. Palaeontology vol. 18 (6): p.386 pl.53 fig.7

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.83

Woods 1891 a. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.107

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