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Fossil specimen : OUM J.03455 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Trigoniida

Fossil Name Psilotrigonia beesleyana (Lycett, 1874)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Psilotrigonia beesleyana (Lycett, 1874) – See Stanley (1977): Syntype

Psilotrigonia beesleyana (Lycett, 1874) – See Cox (1952): Syntype

Trigonia beesleyana Lycett, 1874 – See Walford (1885): Syntype

Trigonia beesleyana Lycett, 1874 – See Lycett (1874): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J.03455
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Walford, E.A., ex Beesley, T.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Coombe Hill, near Banbury, Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone Sonninia sowerbyi
Geological Age

Bajocian Age (Jurassic Period) (168.3 – 170.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

COX, L.R. 1952. Notes on the Trigoniidae, with outlines of a Classification of the Family. Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., 29 (2-3), 45-70, pls 3 and 4. p. 53; pl. 3, fig. 5

LYCETT, J. 1874. A Monograph of the British Fossil Trigoniae, part 2. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 53-92, pls X-XIX. p. 91; pl. XVII, fig. 4

STANLEY, S.M. 1977. Coadaptation in the Trigoniidae, a remarkable family of burrowing bivalves. Palaeontology, 20, 869-899. p. 888; pl. 118, fig. 8

WALFORD, E.A. 1885. On the Stratigraphical positions of the Trigoniae of the Lower and Middle Jurassic Beds of North Oxfordshire and adjacent districts. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., XLI, 35-47, pl. I. pp. 43 - 44

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