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Fossil specimen : SM E 4477 –

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Chondrichthyes

      Order -

Fossil Name Acondylacanthus distans (McCoy)
Type Status
Name History

Acondylacanthus distans (McCoy)

Ctenacanthus distans McCoy

Provenance
Registration No. E 4477
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Stokes, W.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Limestone (red)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Visean Stage (Carboniferous Period) – Tournaisian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 358.9 Ma B.P.)

References
References

McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii (1): p.116

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.11

McCoy 1855 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Geol. Mus. Cambridge (2): p.625 pl. iii k figs.15, a

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 (3):

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