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Fossil specimen : SM H 4306 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Rhynchonellata

      Order Orthida

Fossil Name Skenidium britannicum (Whidborne)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Skenidium britannicum (Whidborne)

Conchidium britannicum Whidborne: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. H 4306
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 Lummaton Quarries, St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Middle Devonian
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Mid Devonian Epoch (Devonian Period) (382.7 – 393.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Whidborne 1893 a. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii (1):

Whidborne 1893 a. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii (1): p.124 pl.xiv figs.9, 9a-b

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