A type catalog of fossil invertebrates (Mollusca: Coleoidea, Monoplacophora and Scaphopoda) in the Yale Peabody Museum

Authors

Russell D. White, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8118

Publication Date

10-15-1998

Series Number

216

Abstract

Type material for 16 nominal species of fossil Coleoidea, Monoplacophora and Scaphopoda are in the Invertebrate Paleontology Collections of Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Primary types for 6 nominal species include 4 holotypes, and 4 syntypes (representing 2 nominal species). Secondary types for 2 nominal species include 2 paratypes. Tertiary types for 6 nominal species include 19 hypotypes. Most types are from New York, Nova Scotia, Oklahoma and South Dakota and have been described by J.S. Peel, P.E. Raymond, L.W. Stephenson and K.M. Waage.