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Fossil specimen : SM J 5796 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Cardiida

Fossil Name Tancredia marmorea Cox & Arkell
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Tancredia marmorea Cox & Arkell

Tanoudia marmorea Cox & Arkell: Holotype

Tancreclia gibbosa Lycett

Tancredia gibbosa Lycett

Provenance
Registration No. J 5796
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 Laycock, Wiltshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Forest Marble
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. 1948. A survey of the mollusca of the British Great Oolite series Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.37

Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. 1950. A survey of the mollusca of the British Great Oolite series Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): explanation of Lycett's pl.xxxvi

Lycett, J. 1863. A supplementary monograph on the Mollusca from the Stonesfield Slate, Great Oolite, Forest Marble, and Cornbrash Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1): p.68 pl. xxxvi fig.11

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.91

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