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Byssoarca costellata McCoy 1844

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Byssoarca costellata McCoy, 1844 [invalid] Original source McCoy (1844): 72, pl. 11 fig. 36. Type stratum and age Upper Limestone of Limestone Group (Griffith in McCoy 1862); probably Dartry Limestone Formation of the Tyrone Group (Asbian, Visean, Mississippian, Carboniferous). Type locality “ Black Lion, Enniskillen ”, County Leitrim (Griffith in McCoy 1862), Ireland. Type material The figured specimen is lost (Hind 1897: 146). It should have been stored at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, as part of the Griffith collection. Another syntype (NMING, coll. no. F7309) is available there. Remarks Considered a junior synonym of Parallelodon cancellatus “(Martin, 1809) ” [actually (J. De C. Sowerby, 1824)] by Hind (1897: 144).

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20750570

Authors: Friedel, Julia C., Neubauer, Thomas A., Amler, Michael R. W.

Institutions: University of Cologne, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Bavarian Natural History Collections, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Philipps University of Marburg

Topic: Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W7165117708

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