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Fossil specimen : BGS Pg867 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Hemichordata

    Class Graptolithina

      Order -

Fossil Name Monograptus austerus var praecursor Elles & Wood
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Monograptus austerus var praecursor Elles & Wood

Monograptus revolutus var praecursor Elles & Wood

Provenance
Registration No. Pg867
Collector survey 1907
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Rheidol Gorge,Pont Erwyd,Cardigan
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

Elles & Wood,1910,Mon. Brit. Graptolites,Pal. Soc. pg. 386 pl. XXXVIII,fig. 3a 255b-c

Hutt,1974,Special papers in Palaeontology,13 pg.202 16e

Rickards et al,1977,Bull BM(NH),vol.28,no. 1,pg. 43 19

Sudbury,1958,Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc.Ser.B no. 685,vol. 241,pg. 547 27b&28

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P816137.JP2

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/BGS/P816140.JP2

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/BGS/P827316.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P816695.JP2

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/BGS/P816696.JP2

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