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Fossil specimen : SM A 40615 a – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

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

Provenance
Registration No. A 40615 a
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Elles, Gertrude Lilian (1872-1960)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Nant Aber Derfel gorge, Bala, Merionethshire, 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 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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