GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Strophomenata

      Order Strophomenida

Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) ungluata (M'coy), (1851): Lectotype

Kiaeromena ungula (McCoy), 1851: Lectotype

Rafinesquina (Playfairia) ungula (McCoy)

Strophomena ungula McCoy

Strophomena ungula McCoy

Strophomena ungula (McCoy)

Leptaena (Leptagonia) ungula McCoy: Syntype

Leptaena (Leptagonia) ungula McCoy

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (449 – 458.4 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 (7):

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.15, plate 5, p.1175; p.1177 Published incorrectly as A 2403

Davidson 1871. British fossil Brachiopoda Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. iii, part vii (3): p.285 McCoy's fig. referred to

McCoy 1851 c. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. viii (1): p.404

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.249, 365 pl.1 h figs.37, 371

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.226

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (4): p.62

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.65