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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM8638 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Astarte hebridica Anderson & Cox
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Astarte hebridica Anderson & Cox – See Anderson & Cox (1948): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. GSM8638
Collector Murchison Collection.
Donor or Associated Person Murchison, Sir, RI. 1851
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Great Estuarine Series - Belemnite Sands.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Loch Staffin - Isle of Skye.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Great Estuarine Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Bajocian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 170.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Anderson & Cox. 1948. Proc.Roy.Phys.Soc p.109

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