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Fossil specimen : OUM J.00841 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Heterostrophia

Fossil Name Aphanoptyxis bladonensis Arkell, 1931
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Aphanoptyxis bladonensis Arkell, 1931 – See Cox & Arkell (1948): Paratype

Aphanoptyxis bladonensis Arkell, 1931 – See Arkell (1931): Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. J.00841
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Arkell, W.J.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments var. imbricataria Cossman
Location
Country England
Locality Orchard Quarry, Bladon, Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Bladon Member, Arkell's Fimbriata-Waltoni Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

ARKELL, W.J. 1931. The Upper Great Oolite, Bradford Beds and Forest Marble of south Oxfordshire, and the succession of Gastropod Faunas in the Great Oolite. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., LXXXVII (4), 563-629, pls XLVII-LI. p. 618; pl. L, fig. 12

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. 79

Available Images

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