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Fossil specimen : SM E 4073 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Chondrichthyes

      Order -

Fossil Name Ctenacanthus crenulatus Agassiz, L.
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Ctenacanthus crenulatus Agassiz, L.

Ctenacanthus crenatus McCoy ex Agassiz nom. nud.: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. E 4073
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 Northern Ireland
Locality Armagh, County Armagh, 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

Davis, J.W. 1883. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society vol. (2) i (2): p.345 pl. xlv figs.6, 6 a

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 (1): p.624 pl. iii i figs.31, a, b

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): p.159

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