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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM7067 –

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Pleurotomarioidea

Fossil Name Pleurotomaria aspera Sowerby
Type Status
Name History

Pleurotomaria aspera Sowerby

?Phymatopleura aspera Sowerby

Provenance
Registration No. GSM7067
Collector no history
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Petherwin,Cornwall
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Late Devonian Epoch (Devonian Period) (358.9 – 382.7 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Amler & Heidelberger 2003 Palaeontology 46 6 p.1177 Fig.10C-D

Phillips 1841 Pal Foss pl.37,fig177

Whidborne 1896 Mon Pal Soc 3 p.58 pl.6,fig.12

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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