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Murchisonia spinosum (J de C Sowerby, 1827)

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  • Title: Murchisonia spinosum (J de C Sowerby, 1827)
  • Type status: Type
  • Specific epithet: spinosum
  • Scientific name authorship: (J de C Sowerby, 1827)
  • Phylum: Mollusca
  • Order: Murchisoniina
  • Locality: Bradley
  • Latest period or highest system: Carboniferous
  • Latest era or highest erathem: Paleozoic
  • Latest epoch or Highest series: Mississippian
  • Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Identified by: Master - Dr Consuelo Sendino; The Natural History Museum London; Department of Palaeontology; Sendin
  • Identification Qualifier: pl. 566 fig. 4
  • Higher geography: [British Isles]; Bradley
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Orthogastropoda; Murchisoniina; Murchisoniidae
  • Group: Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup
  • Genus: Murchisonia
  • Family: Murchisoniidae
  • Earliest period or lowest system: Carboniferous
  • Earliest era or lowest erathem: Paleozoic
  • Earliest epoch or lowest series: Mississippian
  • Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Country: [British Isles]
  • Class: Gastropoda
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