Fossil specimen : SM B 19416 – Syntype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Bivalvia Order Pectinida |
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| Fossil Name | Pecten (Neithea) atavus Roemer |
| Type Status | Syntype |
| Name History | Pecten (Neithea) atavus Roemer Pecten (Neithea) ornithopus Keeping: Syntype |
| Registration No. | B 19416 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Upware, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Lower Greensand |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Keeping 1883. The fossils and palaeontological affinities of the Neocomian deposits of Upware and Brickhill (1): p.107 pl. iv fig.5 b Woods 1903. A monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.197 pl. xxxix fig.2 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.86 |
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