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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM35902 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Eccyliopterus minor Portlock
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Eccyliopterus minor Portlock

Ecculiomphalus minor Portlock

Ecculiomphalus bucklandi Portlock

Provenance
Registration No. GSM35902
Collector Portlock
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Sample also includes a small diagram from QJGS.
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Desertcreat,Tyrone
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (449 – 458.4 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ]

References
References

Longstaff,QJGS,vol. 80,1924,ibid,pg. 433 pl.38,fig.3

Portlock,Geol. Rept.Londonderry etc.,1843,ibid pg. 412 pl.XXX,fig.11

Reed,1952,Proc. Roy. Irish Acad,55,B,no. 3,pg. 86 pl.V,fig.2

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P813595.JP2

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/BGS/P813599.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P814101.JP2

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