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Fossil specimen : SM A 40966 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Glyptambonites magnificus Williams in Whittington and Williams, 1955
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Glyptambonites magnificus Williams in Whittington and Williams, 1955

Palaeostrophomena magnifica Williams: Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. A 40966
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Williams, Alwyn (1891-1976)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Derfel gorge, Arenig, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Derfel Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (449 – 458.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Cocks, L.R.M. 2010. Palaeontology vol. 53, part 5, pp. 1155-1200 Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderlands p.1184

Williams 1955. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) vol. 238 (1): P.414 PL.39 FIGS.66-67 (A.40, 966B)

Williams 1955. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) vol. 238 pp.397-420

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