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Fossil specimen : SM J 6594 – Undifferentiated Type

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Littorinoidea

Fossil Name Purpurina (Eucycloidea) bianor (d'Orbigny)
Type Status Undifferentiated Type
Name History

Purpurina (Eucycloidea) bianor (d'Orbigny)

Purpurina (Eucycloidea) fusiformis Hudleston: Undifferentiated Type

Provenance
Registration No. J 6594
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 Yeovil, Somerset, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Inferior Oolite
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bajocian Age (Jurassic Period) (168.3 – 170.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Hudleston, W.H. 1888 for 1887. A monograph of the Inferior Oolite Gasteropoda Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1): p.96 pl. ii figs.6 a-b

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.114

Available Images

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