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Fossil specimen : SM H 772 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Ptychopteria damnoniensis (Sowerby, J. de C.)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Ptychopteria damnoniensis (Sowerby, J. de C.)

Pterinea damnoniensis (Sowerby, J. de C.)

Dolabra damnoniensis (Sowerby, J. de C.)

Avicula damnoniensis Sowerby, J. de C.: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. H 772
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 Marwood Quarry, Marwood, Barnstaple, Devon, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Sandstone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

McCoy 1852 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.394

McCoy 1852 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1):

Sowerby, J. de C. 1840. Transactions of the Geological Society vol. (2) v (1): pl.liii fig.22

Whidborne 1896. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): p.126 (1897) pl.xiv figs.10,10a-b (1896)

Whidborne 1896. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3):

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):

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.89

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