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Copyright/attribution: Natural History Museum, London

Accession number

NHMUK-1887.2.9.9

Holding institution

Natural History Museum, London

Date collected

28 February 1876

Area or Water body

Off Montevideo, Uruguay
Southwest Atlantic Ocean

Form

Dry

FAO

41

Field measurements and observations

Bottom Temperature (°F): 33.1
Sediment sample: Blue mud
Specific Gravity at water bottom: 1.0286
Specific Gravity at water surface: 1.02477
Surface Temperature (°F): 73.5
Temperature at x fathoms: 71.5;69.5;67.5;65.5;63.5;61.5;59.5;57.5;55.5;53.5;51.5;49.5;42;38.9;37.8;37;37;37;37;37;37;37;37;37;36.3;34.8;33.8;33.1

Type status

Syntype

Taxonomic groups

Dentalium amphialum
Dentalium
Dentaliida
Scaphopoda
Mollusca
Animalia

Station

323

Gear

Trawl

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