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Fossil specimen : BGS Geol.Soc.Coll.1493 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Bathycyathus? sowerbyi Milne Edwards & Haime
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Bathycyathus? sowerbyi Milne Edwards & Haime

Provenance
Registration No. Geol.Soc.Coll.1493
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Geol Soc (Fitton Dr) 1911
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Ridge Wiltshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Greensand Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 113 Ma B.P.)

References
References

D'Orbigny. 1850. Prod de Pal p.180

E de Fromentel. 1858. Polypiei Fossiles p.78

Milne Edwards &Haime. 1850. British Fossil Corals MonPal Soc p.68 XI fig 2

Tomes. 1899. Geol Mag Dec 4 p.300-301

Unknown. Anns des Sciences Nat p.295 IX X

Available Images

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