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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE4909 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Bucanopsis tenuis (One of 3 Syntypes) Weir
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Bucanopsis tenuis (One of 3 Syntypes) Weir

Provenance
Registration No. GSE4909
Collector No name given.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Calciferous Sandstone Series.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Railway cutting - Inverkeithing - Fife.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Strathclyde Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Brigantian Substage (Carboniferous Period) – Chadian Substage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 346.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Visean Age – Tournaisian Age ]

References
References

Weir J 1931 Trans Roy Soc Edinburgh Vol 56 plvii.,fig7

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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