Fossil specimen : SM E 9328 a-b – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Meganisoptera |
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| Fossil Name | Boltonites radstockensis (Bolton) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Boltonites radstockensis (Bolton): Holotype Boltonites radstockensis (Bolton): Undifferentiated Type Boltonites radstockensis (Bolton) Meganeura radstockensis Bolton: Holotype |
| Registration No. | E 9328 a-b |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Arber, E.A.N |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments | part and counterpart : (parts a-b) |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Tyning, Radstock Colliery, Somerset, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Upper Coal Measures |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Pennsylvanian Subperiod (Carboniferous Period) (298.9 – 323.2 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Bolton 1914. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxx (1): p.119 pl. xviii figs.1-3 pl. xix figs.1-3 (e.9, 328a) Bolton 1922 for 1920. A monograph of the fossil insects of the British coal measures Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.140 text-fig.44 pl. x figs.1 a-e Handlirsch 1919. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wein. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse vol. xcvi (2): p.571 fig.71 Wallis, F.S. 1938. Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society vol. (4) viii (4): p.433 |
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