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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM108842 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class -

      Order -

Fossil Name Salenia portlocki Woodward
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Salenia portlocki Woodward

Provenance
Registration No. GSM108842
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Portlock Collection
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Ireland
Locality Ireland
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Chalk Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Maastrichtian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Cenomanian Age (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 100.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Portlock. 1843. Mem Geol Surv Geology of Londonderry & Tyrone p.358 XVIII fig 5a b

Woodward. 1856. Decade V p.5

Wright CW. 1967. Proc Geol Assoc p.23

Wright. 1870. Mon Pal Soc p.184

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P838267.JP2

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/BGS/P838270.JP2

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/BGS/P838273.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P839051.JP2

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/BGS/P839052.JP2

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/BGS/P839053.JP2

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