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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE166 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Oncocerida

Fossil Name Cyrtoceras sp.
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Cyrtoceras sp.

Ellesmeroceras multispetotum

Provenance
Registration No. GSE166
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Loch Meadaidh, S of Durness
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Durness Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) – Comley Series (Cambrian Period) (460.5 – 526 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Darriwilian Age – Terreneuvian Epoch ]

References
References

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P813253.JP2

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/BGS/P813256.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P813991.JP2

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