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Fossil specimen : OUM J.37549 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Pectinibranchia

Fossil Name Peverilia perisphincta Arkell, 1941
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Peverilia perisphincta Arkell, 1941 – See Arkell (1941): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. J.37549
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
Location
Country England
Locality Durlston Bay, Dorset
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Durlston Formation, Basal bed of Corbula Beds
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Berriasian Age (Cretaceous Period) (139.4 – 145 Ma B.P.)

References
References

ARKELL, W.J. 1941. The gastropods of the Purbeck Beds. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., XCVII (1), 79-128. pp. 98, 100; text-fig. 27

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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