Fossil specimen : SM B 52623 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Brachiopoda Class - Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Cretirhynchia magna Pettitt |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Cretirhynchia magna Pettitt: Holotype Rhynchonella plicatilis (Sowerby J.) |
| Registration No. | B 52623 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Brydone, Reginald Marr (1873-1943) |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
|---|---|
| Locality | Trimingham, Norfolk, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Upper Chalk |
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| Biozone | lunata |
| Geological Age |
Maastrichtian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Turonian Age (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 93.9 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Brydone, R.M. 1900. The Stratigraphy and Fauna of the Trimmingham Chalk (1): Brydone, R.M. 1906. Geological Magazine n.s. dec. v, vol iii (1): pp.13, 72, 124, 289 Brydone, R.M. 1908 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxiv (1): p.401 Brydone, R.M. 1938. On correlation of some of the Norfolk Exposures of chalk with Belemnitella mucronata ?Publ: Dulau and Company, London (1): the records in which are in part based on these specimens Pettitt, N.E. 1950. A monograph on some Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.22 pl. ii figs.9 a-c |
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