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type locality

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type locality [′tīp lō‚kal·əd·ē]
(geology)
The place at which a stratigraphic unit is typically displayed and from which it derives its name.
The place where a geologic feature was first recognized and described.


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2009) compared samples of Olympia oysters from Sinaloa, Mexico (near the type locality of Ostrea conchaphila Carpenter 1857), Willapa Bay, WA (the type locality of Ostrea lurida Carpenter 1864), and from several other intermediate locations.
The type locality for Strosipherus was indicated by Pander as Leo (present name Loo), Saaremaa Island, Estonia.
Guam is the type locality of Ceratopteris gaudichaudii Brongn.
 
 
 
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