Blastoid
Type specimen. Label found with object (written in 1974): ‘Pentremites robustus Lyon. (specimen with arms figured Eth. & Carp., 1886, Pl. XI. fig. 16,17). Middle Chester ? Illinois Basin USA. A.S. Horowitz’.
Recorded in ‘Catalogue of the Blastoidea in the Sladen Collection, Exeter Museums’ compiled by Dr. A. Breimer, Amsterdam: ‘RC Pentremites robustus Lyon Miss. [Mississippian], M. Chester; ? Illinois Basin. 14 sp., plus several fragments, partly type material (specimen with arms figd. Eth. & Carp., 1886, Pl. XI, fig. 16,17) RC Pentremites robustus Lyon Miss., M. Chester; ? Illinois Basin 5 sp.’
Probably these two collections have been amalgamated.
Recorded in ‘Catalogue of the Blastoidea in the Sladen Collection, Exeter Museums’ compiled by Dr. A. Breimer, Amsterdam: ‘RC Pentremites robustus Lyon Miss. [Mississippian], M. Chester; ? Illinois Basin. 14 sp., plus several fragments, partly type material (specimen with arms figd. Eth. & Carp., 1886, Pl. XI, fig. 16,17) RC Pentremites robustus Lyon Miss., M. Chester; ? Illinois Basin 5 sp.’
Probably these two collections have been amalgamated.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 263/1903/B/818
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Fossils
- Collection Area Region
- North America
- Collector Excavator
- Sladen, Mr Walter Percy (from the collection of): Horowitz, A S
- Common Name
- blastoid
- Simple Name
- fossil: echinoderm
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
