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Order Dendroidea, Family: Pseudodictyonemidae

Pseudodictyonema heyi  Chapman, Rickards & Grayson, 1993
Diagnosis: "Large conical colony, at least 110 mm by 100mm, with undulating robust stipes, subparallel and united by common but irregular disspiments and irregular anastomosis. Stipes compound, spaced at 6-8 in 10mm and difining a fairly regular meshwork together with stipe branching and connections (either dissepiments or anastomosis) at a spacing of 1-3 in 10mm."
From Chapman, Rickards & Grayson, 1993.

Occurence: Dinantian - Namurian of Britain. The last known British graptolite.

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Diagrammatic illustrations of Dictyonema. >>
Source:

THE CARBONIFEROUS DENDROID GRAPTOLITES OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND. - A.J. Chapman, R.B. Rickards and R.F. Grayson - Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological  Society 1993, 49, 4, 295-319.
Holotype. Richmond, Yorkshire.
Scale bar 0.5cm.
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