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Fossil specimen : SM B 19505 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Astarte upwarensis Woods
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Astarte upwarensis Woods: Syntype

Astarte

Provenance
Registration No. B 19505
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Upware, Cambridgeshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Greensand
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Keeping 1883. The fossils and palaeontological affinities of the Neocomian deposits of Upware and Brickhill (1): p.122 pl. vi fig.9 a

Woods 1906 a. A monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii (3): p.105 pl. xiv figs.10 a-c. no.1 in table of measurements

Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 (2): p.71

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