GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM E 7329 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Rhynchonellata

      Order Spiriferida

Fossil Name Cyrtina carbonarius McCoy
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Cyrtina carbonarius McCoy – See Woods, H. (1891)

Cyrtina carbonaria (McCoy) – See Davidson (1859)

Pentamerus carbonarius McCoy – See McCoy (1855a)

Pentamerus carbonarius McCoy – See McCoy (1852b): Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. E 7329
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, Westmoreland, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Carboniferous Limestone (impure)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Davidson 1859. British fossil Brachiopoda Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii part v p.71 pl. xv figs.5, 5 a, 5 b McCoy's fig.12 is Davidson's fig.5b; McCoy's fig.15 is Davidson's fig.5 and McCoy's fig.17 is Davidson's fig.5a

McCoy 1852 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. x p.426

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology p.253

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.442

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.442 pl. iii d figs.12, 15,15 a? fig.17 which is described as a variety

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.52

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