GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Lingulata

      Order Acrotretida

Orthisocrania divaricata (McCoy), 1851

Crania divaricata (McCoy)

Crania divaricata McCoy

Crania divaricata (McCoy)

Pseudocrania divaricata McCoy: Syntype

Pseudocrania divaricata McCoy

Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 449 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

Cocks, L.R.M. 1978. A review of British Lower Palaeozoic Brachiopods, including a synoptic revision of Davidson's monograph Palaeontographical Society Monographs (6): p.30

Davidson 1866. British fossil Brachiopoda Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. iii part vii (3): p.78 pl. viii fig.7 a McCoy's fig. copied

McCoy 1851 c. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. viii (1): p.388

McCoy 1852 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): pp.187, 354 pl.1 h fig.2 a

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.210

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.55 as a.152

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 (5): p.51