Fossil specimen : BGS GSM85052 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Ostracoda Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Glyptoscorpius caledonicus (Salter) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Glyptoscorpius caledonicus (Salter) |
| Registration No. | GSM85052 |
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| Collector | Survey 1859 |
| Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
| Held By |
 British Geological Survey
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| Comments | Calciferous Sandstone Series |
| Country | Scotland |
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| Locality | Cockburnspath - Dunbar - Scotland. |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Dinantian Subsystem (Carboniferous Period) (326.4 – 359.2 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Peach Trans-Roy Soc Edin 1883 vol xxx pp 518-21 p.518-521 Salter in 'Geology of East Lothian' Mem Geol Surv 1866 text-fig 22 p 72 as Cycadites caledonicus p.72 22 Salter in Geology of Eastern Berwickshire' Mem Geol Surv 1863 p 58 as Cycadites caledonicus p.58 |
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