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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE11755 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Prothyris oblonga sp nov
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Prothyris oblonga sp nov

Prothyris breviformis sp nov

Provenance
Registration No. GSE11755
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Ec 1131
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Archerbeck Bore - Dumfriesshire.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Carboniferous Period (Carboniferous Period) (298.9 – 358.9 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Wilson RB Bull Geol Surv 18 pl.III,fig 5

Wilson RB Palaeontology 6 1 pl.20,fig 5

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P818308.JP2

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/BGS/P818371.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P819241.JP2

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