GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM E 4290 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Chondrichthyes

      Order -
Fossil Name Deltoptychius acutus (Agassiz)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Deltoptychius acutus (Agassiz)

Deltoptychius acutus (Agassiz) – See Woods, H. (1891)

Cochliodus compactus Owen – See Owen (1867): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. E 4290
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 Yorkshire, 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

Owen 1867. Geological Magazine vol. iv p.61 pl. iv fig.1

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.160
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