Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Brachiopoda Class - Order - |
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Fossil Name | Glyptambonites magnificus Williams in Whittington and Williams, 1955 |
Type Status | Holotype |
Name History | Glyptambonites magnificus Williams in Whittington and Williams, 1955: Holotype Palaeostrophomena magnifica Williams: Holotype Leptaena rhomboidalis Wilckens |
Registration No. | A 40615 a |
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Collector | Name not available |
Donor or Associated Person | Elles, Gertrude Lilian (1872-1960) |
Held By | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge |
Comments |
Country | Wales |
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Locality | Nant Aber Derfel gorge, Bala, Merionethshire, Wales |
Grid Reference | Not available |
Rock Unit | Derfel Limestone |
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Biozone | Not available |
Geological Age |
Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (449 – 458.4 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ] |
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 fig.4, plate 7, p.1183. Published incorrectly as A 40614. On p.1184 states that the specimen published as A 46015 in Williams (1955) is in fact A 46014. This is incorrect. The holotype figured by both Williams (1955) and Cocks (2010) is A 40615 Elles, G.L. 1922. The Bala Country: its Structure and Rock Succession Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London volume lxxviii pages 132 - ? (1): p.145 Williams 1955. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) vol. 238 (2): p.414 pl.39 fig.64 (a.40, 615a), fig.65 (a.40, 615b) |
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