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Fossil specimen : SM H 4591 - H 4592 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Sarcopterygii

      Order Crossopterygii

Fossil Name Diplopterus agassizii Traill
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Diplopterus agassizii Traill

Gyroptychius diplopteroides McCoy: Paratype

Gyroptychius diplopteroides McCoy

Provenance
Registration No. H 4591 - H 4592
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Pollexfen, J.H.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Orkney, Scotland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Caithness Flags
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Eifelian Age (Devonian Period) (387.7 – 393.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii (1): p.309

McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii (1):

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.41

Available Images

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