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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM35890 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Pterotheca corrugata Salter
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pterotheca corrugata Salter

Provenance
Registration No. GSM35890
Collector Museum
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Ynys Galed, Caernarvonshire
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

JC Harper, Ann Mag Nat Hist Ser 11 Vol 14, 1947 p.163-164 pl 7 fig 1

Salter, Mem Geol Surv 2nd Edition 1881 p.561 18

Salter, Mem Geol Survey, Vol 3, 1866 p.353 18

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P827721.JP2

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