GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM A 2419 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Rugosa
Fossil Name Diphystrotion kendalense Smith & Lang
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Diphystrotion kendalense Smith & Lang – See Smith, S. & Lang, W.D. (1930): Holotype

Stylastraea basaltiforme McCoy – See McCoy (1851a)

Lithostrotion Fleming, 1828
Provenance
Registration No. A 2419
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Kendal, Westmorland, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Visean Stage (Carboniferous Period) – Tournaisian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 358.9 Ma B.P.)

References
References

McCoy 1851 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils p.107

Smith, S. & Lang, W.D. 1930. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 10 vol. v p.186
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