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Fossil specimen : BGS Geol.Soc.Coll.6258 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Productella (Whidbornella) caperata (J de C Sowerby)
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Productella (Whidbornella) caperata (J de C Sowerby)

Provenance
Registration No. Geol.Soc.Coll.6258
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Geol.Soc.Coll. 1911
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Upper Devonian-Pilton Shales.A2 (Goldring 1957 table) Geol.Soc.Coll. 6258 which is Lectotype of Productella (whidbornella) caperata (J.de C.Sowerby)
Location
Country England
Locality Top Orchard Quarry,Barnstaple,Devon
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Late Devonian Epoch (Devonian Period) (358.9 – 382.7 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Goldring R 1957 palaontlogische Zeitschrift Bd 31 pl.24,fig.1

J deC Sowerby 1840 Trans Geol Soc 2 5 pl.53,fig.1or4

Available Images

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