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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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GIRVANIA. Geol. A genus of fossil gasteropods (1924 M. J. Longstaff Quarterly Jnl. Geol. Soc. LXXX. 430).
[From Girvan in Ayrshire.]
