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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM84599 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Porifera

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Holcospongia suffieldensis Wilson
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Holcospongia suffieldensis Wilson – See Wilson, V (1949): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. GSM84599
Collector Wilson Collection. 1950
Donor or Associated Person Wilson, V. 1950
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Lower Corallian - Hambleton Oolite - Coral Sponge Rag.
Location
Country England
Locality Hackness - North Yorkshire. [1" maps border 44 & 54].
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Corallian Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Oxfordian Age (Jurassic Period) (157.3 – 163.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Wilson, V. 1949. Proc Geol Assoc p.267 pl11.,figs3a,b

Available Images

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