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Fossil specimen : BGS HR424 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Ostracoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Amphissites celticus Ramsbottom
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Amphissites celticus Ramsbottom

Provenance
Registration No. HR424
Collector British Geological Survey 1948
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures - Cefn Coed Marine Band. 1" 248.
Location
Country Wales
Locality Aberbaiden Farm, Glamorgan
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (308 – 319 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Ramsbottom W H C 1952 Bull Geol Surv No 4 p.25 pliii.,fig7

Available Images

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