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Fossil specimen : SM J 5843 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order -

Fossil Name Orbignycoenia waltoni (Edwards & Haime)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Orbignycoenia waltoni (Edwards & Haime)

Orbignycaenia waltoni (Edwards & Haime): Holotype

Convexastraea waltoni Edwards & Haime

Convexastrea waltoni Edwards & Haime: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J 5843
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 Bath (Hampton Cliffs), Somerset, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Great Oolite
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Beauvais 1970. Annales de paleontologie tome lvi fasc.1 (3): p.12 pl. c figs.1 a-b pl. d fig.4 Invertébrés, author presumably means lectotype, other syntype of Edwards and Haime (J.5,844) not mentioned

Edwards, H. Milne & Haime 1851. Archives du Museum national d'histoire naturelle vol. v (1): p.109 pl. xxiii figs.5, 5 a

Negus & Beauvais 1975. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association vol. 86 (4): p.195 table 1

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.16

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