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Fossil specimen : SM J 53416 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Ostreoida

Fossil Name Ostrea sphaeroidalis Whidborne
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Ostrea sphaeroidalis Whidborne: Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. J 53416
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Whidborne, George Ferris (1845-1910)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Yeovil Junction, Somerset, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite (base)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Whidborne 1883 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxxix (1): p.493

Available Images

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