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A new Lower Llandovery graptolite from Coal Pit Bay, County Down

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. Toghill
Affiliation:
Department Of Palaeontology, British Museum, (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.7.

Summary

Monograptus hipposideros sp. nov., a new Lower Llandovery monograptid, is described from Coal Pit Bay, Northern Ireland. With distinct “horseshoe” curvature and simple thecal shape it is similar to, and is compared with Monograptus cyphus s.l. Lapworth, M. gregarius Lapworth and M. leei Hsü.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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