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Fossil specimen : SM B 12645 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Brachidontes Swainson, 1840
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Brachidontes Swainson, 1840

Modiola (Brachydontes) vectensis Woods: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. B 12645
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 Atherfield, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, 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

Van de Poel 1959. Bulletin de l'Institut royal de sciences naturelles de Belgique vol. xxxv 15 (2): p.25

Woods 1900 a. A monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. i (1): p.102 pl. xvii figs.6 a-b

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