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Fossil specimen : BGS Zl7401 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Nautilida

Fossil Name Knightoceras louphaphontaensis Ramsbottom & Moore
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Knightoceras louphaphontaensis Ramsbottom & Moore

Provenance
Registration No. Zl7401
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Moore EWJ 1959
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments P1c
Location
Country Ireland
Locality Tawnyunshinagh School,Co.Leitrim
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Dinantian Subsystem (Carboniferous Period) (326.4 – 359.2 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Ramsbottom & Moore 1961 Liv & Man Geol Journ 2 IV p.639-640 pl.30,fig.2

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P829393.JP2

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/BGS/P829396.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P829787.JP2

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