CATALOGUE OF TYPE FOSSILS IN THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 9 years ago

Abstract: This catalogue records details conccrning all the fossil plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate type specimens (holotypes, lectotypes, syntypes, neotypes, paratypes and paralectotypes) that are present in the palaeontological collections of the Western Australian Museum. Of the 156 species for which type specimens are held, 127 are represented by holotypes. The collection contains just one holotype of a species described last century: a further ten species represented by type specimens of species or subspecies deseribed in the first 65 years of this century, but a further 132 of species or subspecies described in the last 25 years.

Author(s) K.J. McNamara, J.A. Long and K. Brimmell : Part 1
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