Fossil specimen : SM B 19472 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Bivalvia Order Ostreoida |
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| Fossil Name | Ostrea walkeri Keeping |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Ostrea walkeri Keeping: Holotype |
| Registration No. | B 19472 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Walker, John Francis (d.1907) |
| 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 | Upware Limestone Member |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Oxfordian Age (Jurassic Period) (157.3 – 163.5 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Keeping 1883. The fossils and palaeontological affinities of the Neocomian deposits of Upware and Brickhill (1): p.103 pl. iv figs.4 a-c Woods 1913 c. A monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii (3): p.360 pl. iv figs.1 a-c 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.85 |
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