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Fossil specimen : SM J 3475 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Porifera

    Class Hexactinellida

      Order -

Fossil Name Calathiscus variolatus Sollas
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Calathiscus variolatus Sollas

Calathiscus variolatus Sollas: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J 3475
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Whidborne, George Ferris (1845-1910)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Burton Bradstock Cliff, Bridport, Dorset
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite
Biozone Upper parkinsoni
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Hinde 1893. A monograph of the British fossil sponges (2): p.197 pl. xi fig.1

Sollas 1883. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxxix (1): p.546 pl. xxi fig.17

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