GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Rhynchonellata

      Order Orthida

Plectorthis scotica (McCoy), 1851 – See Cocks, L.R.M. (1978): Lectotype

Orthis (Hebertella) scotica (McCoy) – See Reed, F.R.C. (1917c)

Orthis calligramma var. scotica (McCoy) – See Woods, H. (1891)

Orthisina scotica McCoy – See Salter (1873)

Orthis calligramma var. scotica (McCoy) – See Davidson (1869c)

Orthisina scotica McCoy – See McCoy: Holotype

Orthisina scotica McCoy – See McCoy (1851c)

Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) – Abereiddian Stage (Ordovician Period) (449 – 465.5 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch – Darriwilian Age ]

Anderson, F.W. & Pringle 1946. Geological Magazine vol. lxxxiii pp.172-176

Cocks, L.R.M. 1978. A review of British Lower Palaeozoic Brachiopods, including a synoptic revision of Davidson's monograph Palaeontographical Society Monographs pp.53,194

Davidson 1869 c. British fossil Brachiopoda Palaeontographical Society Monographs iii part vi p.240 pl. xxxv figs.20, a-b (after mccoy's figs)

McCoy 1851 c. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. viii p.400

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology p.222

McCoy a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils p.232 pl. ih figs.2929 a-b

Reed, F.R.C. 1917 c. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences vol. li part iv p.844 pl. viii figs.19, 19 a

Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge p.61, a 143

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.56

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