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Fossil specimen : BGS Geol.Soc.Coll.6884 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Rhipidomella polygramma (Sowerby)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Rhipidomella polygramma (Sowerby)

Atrypa polygramma (Sowerby)

Orthis polygramma (Sowerby)

Provenance
Registration No. Geol.Soc.Coll.6884
Collector Geol. Soc. 1911
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Powys Castle Park,Welshpool,Montgomeryshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Llandovery Epoch (Silurian Period) (433.4 – 443.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Davidson,Mon.Pal.Soc.,1869,pg.220 pl. XXIX,fig.2

Sowerby in Murchison's,Sil. System,1839 pl. XXI,fig. 4a

Whittard & Barker,Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.Ser.vol.111,1950,pg.580

Available Images

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/BGS/P827320.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P816681.JP2

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/BGS/P827736.JP2

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