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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM27998 – Undifferentiated Type

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Cymbularia alata (Portlock)
Type Status Undifferentiated Type
Name History

Cymbularia alata (Portlock)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM27998
Collector Portlock 1843
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Desertcreat, Caradoc
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

Portlock 1843 Geol of Londonderry and parts of Tyrone and Fernanagh p.471 pl 33 fig 9

Reed "Mon Brit Ord Sil Bell" Palaeont Soc 1918 p.64 pl.10 fig 10

Reed 1952 Proc Roy Irish Acad 55 B No 3 p.90

Available Images

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