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Fossil specimen : SM J 5844 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Scleractinia

Fossil Name Convexastraea waltoni Edwards & Haime
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Convexastraea waltoni Edwards & Haime

Convexastrea waltoni Edwards & Haime: Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J 5844
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 Box Tunnel, 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

Edwards, H. Milne & Haime 1851. Archives du Museum national d'histoire naturelle vol. v (1): p.109 pl. xxiii fig.6

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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