Fossil specimen : SM B 27340 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Gastropoda Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Rhabdocolpus melvillei Abbass |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Rhabdocolpus melvillei Abbass: Holotype Cerithium |
| Registration No. | B 27340 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Wiltshire |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Atherfield, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, 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 | 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.145 pl. 5 fig. 7 |
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