Fossil specimen : SM A 52001 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Brachiopoda Class Rhynchonellata Order Rhynchonellida |
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| Fossil Name | Plectothyrella crassicostis (Dalman), 1828 |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Plectothyrella crassicostis (Dalman), 1828 Plectothyrella platystrophoides Temple: Holotype |
| Registration No. | A 52001 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Temple, John Tempest |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments | part and counterpart : (parts a-b) |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Hol Beck, High Skelghyll Farm, Ambleside, Westmorland, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Ashgill Shale |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 449 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ] |
| 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.153 Temple, J.T. 1965. Acta palaeontologica polonica vol. x (1): p.412 pl. xx fig.3 (a.52, 001a) |
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