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Fossil specimen : BGS V936c – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Cardiida

Fossil Name Quenstedtia forbesi Anderson & Cox
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Quenstedtia forbesi Anderson & Cox – See Anderson & Cox (1948): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. V936c
Collector BGS - Scottish Office 1936 – 1937
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Great Estuarine Series - Upper Ostrea Beds.
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.112 pl2.,fig9

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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Steroscopic photographs

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