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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM8178 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Pleurotomarioidea

Fossil Name Pleurotomaria morrisi d'Orbigny
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pleurotomaria morrisi d'Orbigny – See Morris & Lycett (1851)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM8178
Collector Lycett Collection.
Donor or Associated Person Lycett, J. 1867
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Great Oolite.
Location
Country England
Locality Minchinhampton - Glos.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Great Oolite Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Cox & Arkell. 1950. British GO Mollusc - Palaeont Soc p.49

Morris & Lycett. 1851. Mollusca from the GO Palaeont Soc p.79 pl10.,fig11

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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