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Fossil specimen : SM J 6118 – Undifferentiated Type

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Scleractinia

Fossil Name Cosmoseris vermicularis (McCoy)
Type Status Undifferentiated Type
Name History

Cosmoseris vermicularis (McCoy)

Cosmoseris vermicularis (McCoy)

Meandrina vermicularis McCoy

Meandrina vermicularis McCoy: Undifferentiated Type

Provenance
Registration No. J 6118
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, 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

Edwards, H. Milne & Haime 1851. Archives du Museum national d'histoire naturelle vol. v (3): p.122

McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii (1): p.402

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (2): p.49

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 (4): p.16

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