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Fossil specimen : SM A 40372 – Holotype

Taxonomy
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Fossil Name Stellascolites radiatus Etheridge
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Stellascolites radiatus Etheridge

Stella scolites var. radiatus Etheridge: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 40372
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Dover
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Randal Crag, Skiddaw, Cumberland, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Skiddaw Slate
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) – Arenig Series (Ordovician Period) (460.5 – 477.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age – Early Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Ward 1876. The geology of the Northern part of the English Lake District Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales (1): p.110 pl. xiii

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 (2): p.2

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