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Fossil specimen : SM B 11441 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Malacostraca

      Order Decapoda

Fossil Name Homarus dentatus (Roemer)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Homarus dentatus (Roemer)

Hoploparia prismatica McCoy: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. B 11441
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Speeton, Yorkshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Speeton Clay
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Berriasian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 145 Ma B.P.)

References
References

McCoy 1849 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 vol. iv (1): p.178

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.131

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 (2): p.155

Woods, H. 1931. A monograph of the fossil Macrurous Crustacea of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.89

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