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Fossil specimen : SM J 6115 – Undifferentiated Type

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Scleractinia

Fossil Name Dimorpharaea fungiformis (Edwards & Haime)
Type Status Undifferentiated Type
Name History

Dimorpharaea fungiformis (Edwards & Haime)

Thamnastrea fungiformis Edwards & Haime

Thamnastrea fungiformis Edwards & Haime: Undifferentiated Type

Provenance
Registration No. J 6115
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Walton
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Charlcomb, Bath, Somerset, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Beauvais 1970. Annales de paleontologie tome lvi fasc.1 (3): pp.32-33 pl. a figs.1 a-b pl. e fig.5 Invertébrés, the author makes no mention of the Edwards and Haime Paratypes (J.6119-21)

Edwards, H. Milne & Haime 1851. Archives du Museum national d'histoire naturelle vol. v (1): p.141 pl. xxx figs.4, 4 a

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.29

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