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Fossil specimen : SM H 257 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Rhynchonellata

      Order Spiriferida

Fossil Name Spirifer (Cyrtospirifer) verneuili var. guttata Reed
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Spirifer (Cyrtospirifer) verneuili var. guttata Reed: Holotype

Spirifera verneuilii Murchison

Provenance
Registration No. H 257
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Whidborne, George Ferris (1845-1910)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Snapper Quarry, Barnstaple, Devon
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Devonian
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Devonian Period (Devonian Period) (358.9 – 419.2 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Reed, F.R.C. 1943 b. Geological Magazine vol. lxxx (2): p.103

Whidborne 1897 a. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. iii (1):

Whidborne 1897 a. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. iii (1): p.152 pl.xviii figs.13,13a

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