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Fossil specimen : OUM J.00857 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Cardiida

Fossil Name Tancredia brevis Morris & Lycett, 1855
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Tancredia brevis Morris & Lycett, 1855 – See Cox & Arkell (1948)

Tancredia arguta Phillips, 1871 – See Phillips (1871): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. J.00857
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Phillips, J.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Stonesfield, Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Stonesfield Slate
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

COX, L.R. and ARKELL, W.J. 1948-1950. A survey of the Mollusca of the British Great Oolite Series. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-105. p. 36

PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. p. 181; pl. X, fig. 18

Available Images

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