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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM8634 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Ostreoida

Fossil Name Ostrea (Liostrea) hebridica Forbes
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Ostrea (Liostrea) hebridica Forbes – See Forbes (1851): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. GSM8634
Collector Murchison Collection.
Donor or Associated Person Murchison, Sir, RI. 1851
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Great Estuarine Series.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Staffin Bay - 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.107

Forbes. 1851. Q.J.G.S pl5.,fig48

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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/BGS/P824718.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P817977.JP2

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/BGS/P826098.JP2

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