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Fossil specimen : SM A 40981 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) lenis (Williams), (1955)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) lenis (Williams), (1955): Holotype

Eoplectodonta lenis (Williams), 1955

Plectodonta lenis Williams: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. A 40981
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 part and counterpart : (parts a-b)
Location
Country Wales
Locality Trawsnant, 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. 1978. A review of British Lower Palaeozoic Brachiopods, including a synoptic revision of Davidson's monograph Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.101

Cocks, L.R.M. 2010. Palaeontology vol. 53, part 5, pp. 1155-1200 Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderlands fig.7-8, plate 9, p.1191; p.1190

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

Williams 1955. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) vol. 238 (1): p.417 pl.39 fig.81 (a.40, 981c)

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