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Fossil specimen : SM M 3982 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Plantae

  Phylum Cycadophyta

    Class Cycadopsida

      Order Medullosales

Fossil Name Trigonocarpus
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Trigonocarpus

Trigonocarpus moyseyi Form. alpha: Holotype

Trigonocarpus

Trigonocarpus

Provenance
Registration No. M 3982
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Moysey, Lewis (1863-1918)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments part and counterpart : (parts a-b)
Location
Country England
Locality Shipley (clay pit), Derbyshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Middle Coal Measures (horizon of Top Hard Coal)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (308 – 319 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Arber 1910 b. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society vol. xvii (2): p.150 pl. xviii fig.1 (m.3, 982a), pl. xix fig.3 (m.3, 982b)

Arber 1914 b. Annals of Botany vol. xxviii (3): p.95 pl. i fig.1

Arber, E.A.N. 1909 Gowans. Fossil Plants: sixty photographs illustrating the flora of the coal measures Gowans's Nature Books no. 21 PUBL: Gowans and Gray, London (1): fig. on p.42

Crookall 1976. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales (Palaeontology) vol. iv pt.7 (4): p.905 pl.clxxii fig.20 (m.3982a)

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