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Fossil specimen : NEWHM NEWHM : G147.66 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Chondrichthyes

      Order -

Fossil Name Pleuroplax rankinei Hancock and Atthey
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pleuroplax rankinei Hancock and Atthey

Provenance
Registration No. NEWHM : G147.66
Collector Atthey, T.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Great North Museum: Hancock
Comments Image courtesy of the Natural History Society of Northumbria and the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Location
Country England
Locality Newsham Colliery, Northumberland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Shale, above Low Main Seam
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Substage B (Carboniferous Period) (310 – 312 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Woodward, A.S. 1889 p.173

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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Steroscopic photographs

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