Fossil specimen : SM E 1089 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Bivalvia Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Allorisma maxima (Portlock) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Allorisma maxima (Portlock) – See Hind (1900) Sanguinolites clava McCoy – See McCoy (1855a): Holotype Sanguinolites clava McCoy – See McCoy (1854a) Sanguinolites clava McCoy – See McCoy (1851b) |
| Registration No. | E 1089 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | Wales |
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| Locality | Llangollen, Wales |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Carboniferous Limestone |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Visean Stage (Carboniferous Period) – Tournaisian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 358.9 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Hind 1900. A monograph of the British Carboniferous Lamellibranchiata Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. i p.419 McCoy 1851 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. vii p.172 McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology p.205 McCoy 1855 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Geol. Mus. Cambridge p.504 pl. iii f, figs.12, a Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 p.91 |
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