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Fossil specimen : SM H 1226 - H 1229 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Rugosa

Fossil Name Petraia gigas McCoy
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Petraia gigas McCoy: Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. H 1226 - H 1229
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 Newquay (McCoy wrote 'New Quay'), Cornwall, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Devonian
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

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

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

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils (1): p.74

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.69

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