GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM A 35175 – Paralectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Crinoidea

      Order -

Fossil Name Gissocrinus squamiferus (Salter)
Type Status Paralectotype
Name History

Gissocrinus squamiferus (Salter) – See Ramsbottom (1951): Paralectotype

Gissocrinus – See Woods, H. (1891)

Cyathocrinus squamiferus Salter – See Salter (1873): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. A 35175
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Fletcher Coll.
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Wren's Nest, Dudley, Worcestershire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Wenlock Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Wenlock Epoch (Silurian Period) (427.4 – 433.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Ramsbottom 1951. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (12) vol. iv pp.491, 492

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge p.124

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.39

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