GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : NEWHM NEWHM : G59.64 d – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Sarcopterygii

      Order -
Fossil Name Archichthys portlocki Hancock and Atthey, 1870
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Archichthys portlocki Hancock and Atthey, 1870
Provenance
Registration No. NEWHM : G59.64 d
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Great North Museum: Hancock
Comments Image courtesy of the Natural History Society of Northumbria and the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Location
Country England
Locality Hannah Pit, Newsham, Northumberland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Low Main Seam Coalshale
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Substage B (Carboniferous Period) (310 – 312 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Jeffery, J.E., 2006. The Carboniferous fish genera Strepsodus and Archichthys (Sarcopterygii: Rhizodontida): clarifying 150 years of confusion. Palaeontology, Vol. 49, Part 1, pp. 113-132.

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