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Fossil specimen : SM E 5582 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Crinoidea

      Order Monobathrida

Fossil Name Platycrinites
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Platycrinites

Platycrinus diadema McCoy: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. E 5582
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Griffith, R.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Cleenish, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

McCoy 1849 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 vol. iii (1): p.246

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.108

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.41

Wright, James 1956. A monograph on the British Carboniferous Crinoidea Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii (3): p.274

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