Skolithos linearis

Name

Skolithos linearis

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Skolithos

Replaced Name

Fucoides linearis

Authors (Pub.)

Hall J.  

Publication

Palaeontology of New York [1847]

Authors (Book)

Hall J.  

Book

Palaeontology of New York

Volume

1

Fascicle

unknown

Page number

2

Year

1847

Fossil Status

thallus

Stratigraphy

Cambrian

Strat. comment

Stages 2-3

Location

Chickies Rock, approximately 50-m high cliff on the northeast bank of the Susquehanna River near Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA [NEOTYPUS: Chickies Rock, Chickies Rock County Park, NNW of Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA, just to the north and immediately below the overlook area (40°03′08.2”N, 76°31′27.8”W)]

Paleoregion

Laurentia

Data for Neotypus

Designated by

Knaust, R.D.K. Thomas, Curran, Earth Sci. Rev., 185: 21. 26 May 2018

Repository

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA

Repository Number

USNM 706400

Num

8 A, left-side specimen

Pub.

Skolithos linearis Haldeman, 1840 at its early Cambrian type locality, Chickies Rock, Pennsylvania: analysis and designation of a neotype [2018/5]

Data for Not defined

Repository

American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

Repository Number

plate 1a and c (American Museum of Natural History, New York, catalog # AMNH-FI 42309, Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, and # AMNH-FI 273, Adams, Massachusetts); and 1b (New York State Museum, Albany, ichnofossil 547/5220)

Num

1 A, B, C

Pub.

Palaeontology of New York [1847]