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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM56404 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Bryozoa

    Class Stenolaemata

      Order Trepostomatida

Fossil Name Orbignyella favulosa Phillips
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Orbignyella favulosa Phillips

Monticulipora favulosa Phillips

Provenance
Registration No. GSM56404
Collector H. de la Beche 1930
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Llan Mill, Carmarthenshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llandeilo Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) – Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) (449 – 465.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch – Darriwilian Age ]

References
References

Phillips, 1849, Mem. Geol. Survey,vol. II, pt.1 p.385 XXX fig.3

Salter, 1866, Mem Geol Surv Vol 3 XIX, fig.10,10a

Salter, Mem Geol Survey, Vol 3, 1866 XIX ,figs 10,10a

Spjeldnoes,1957, Geol. Mag. vol. XCIV p.367 XII fig. 3-7

Stubblefield 1938 Sum. Prog. Geol. Survey for 1936 part II p.47

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