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Fossil specimen : OUM J.38459a, b – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Insecta

      Order Odonata

Fossil Name Libellula westwoodii Phillips, 1866
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Libellula westwoodii Phillips, 1866 – See Phillips (1871): Holotype

Libellula westwoodii Phillips, 1866 – See Phillips (1866): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. J.38459a, b
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Part & counterpart
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

PHILLIPS, J. 1866. A Monograph of British Belemnitidae: Jurassic, part 2. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 29-52, I-VII. pp. 98 - 99; pl. VI, figs a - c

PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. p. 174; diagr. XXXVI

Available Images

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