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Fossil specimen : SM B 4459 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Exechocirsus saundersi (Woods)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Exechocirsus saundersi (Woods): Holotype

Cerithium saundersi Woods: Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. B 4459
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Montagu-Smith
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments mould : natural (part a)
Location
Country England
Locality Cuckhamsley, Farnborough, Berkshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Unknown
Biozone planus
Geological Age

Late Cretaceous Epoch (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 100.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Abbass, H.L. 1973. Some British Cretaceous gastropods belonging to the families procerithiidae, cerithiidae and cerithiopsidae (cerithiacea) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. 23 (2): p.153 pl. 7 fig. 5

Woods 1896. Mollusca of the Chalk Rock Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lii (1): p.92 pl. iv figs. 12,12 a

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