Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Placodermi Order Arthrodira |
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Fossil Name | Coccosteus cuspidatus Miller |
Type Status | Syntype |
Name History | Coccosteus cuspidatus Miller Coccosteus cuspidatus Miller Coccosteus decipiens Agassiz Coccosteus decipiens Agassiz Coccosteus decipiens Agassiz Coccosteus pusillus McCoy: Syntype Coccosteus pusillus McCoy |
Registration No. | H 4494 |
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Collector | Name not available |
Donor or Associated Person | Pollexfen, J.H. |
Held By | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge |
Comments |
Country | Scotland |
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Locality | Orkney, Scotland |
Grid Reference | Not available |
Rock Unit | Sandwick Fish Bed (almost certainly) |
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Biozone | Not available |
Geological Age |
Eifelian Age (Devonian Period) (387.7 – 393.3 Ma B.P.) |
References | McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii (1): p.298 McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii (1): McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.30 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 (2): 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 (2): p.603 pl.2c fig.5a Miles & Westoll 1963. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences vol. lxv (6): Miles & Westoll 1968 a. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences vol. lxvii (7): pp. 375, 376 (footnote) Miles & Westoll 1968 a. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences vol. lxvii (4): Traquair 1888. Geological Magazine n.s. dec.3, vol. v (4): p.511 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 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): Woodward, A.S. 1891. Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. ii (5): p.283 |
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